“Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.”
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In this first book of Tolkien's epic fantasy in three parts, the hobbit Frodo Baggins, warned by the wizard Gandalf, leaves his comfortable home in the Shire to begin his long perilous quest for the Fire-mountain, in order to cast the Ring of Power into the Cracks of Doom in its depths.
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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“Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.”
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“I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to”
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“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for hi...”
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“He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.”
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“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”
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“I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.”
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“Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, th...”
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“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
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“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”
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“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”
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