J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

  The Two Towers, Gandalf (remembered by Frodo)

  • Life & Death

• I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), Bilbo’s farewell speech

• Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

  The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)

  • Faith

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