J.R.R. Tolkien

English writer and philologist (1892–1973)

· 1892 - 1973 · 283 kata bijak

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

J.R.R. Tolkien

Kehidupan

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

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Kehidupan

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

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Harapan

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

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Cinta

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

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Keberanian

Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men.

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Kehidupan

But it is not your own Shire,’ said Gildor. ‘Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

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Alam

Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There’s something mighty queer behind this.’ He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it.

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Kehidupan

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

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Kehidupan

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

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Kehidupan

Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)—Gandalf came by.

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Waktu

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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Kehidupan

Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself!

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Kehidupan

It's the deep breath before the plunge.

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Kehidupan

Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

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Keluarga

But the sons of Men die indeed, and leave the world; wherefore they are called the Guests or the Strangers. Death is their fate, the gift of Illúvatar, which as time wears even the Powers shall envy.

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Nasihat

Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

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Kehidupan

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

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Nasihat

A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

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Kreativitas

If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.

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Kehidupan

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do no be too eager to deal out death in judgment.

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