Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwรซ and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.
J. R. R. TolkienHammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!
J. R. R. TolkienTrue education is a kind of never ending story โ a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
J. R. R. TolkienWhat have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?
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