Author of quotes: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien



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Quote Explanation: John Tolkien, from a letter to his son Christopher, August 9, 1945
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I'm just swimming like this - not on the instructions.
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Climb into someone else's house, even if it is a willow?
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Giles owes his return to chance, although he used the chance wisely.
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You can’t invent excuses for the king, as for neighbors: sheep, arable land, milk or water, you had to saddle a gray mare and set off.
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The priest was an educated man and could foresee the future much better than others.
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The oaths that he took should have been a heavy burden on his conscience, but - alas - he had no conscience at all.
Quote Explanation: The defeated giant swore to return with a ransom for his life.
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I am a farmer and I am proud of it, a simple honest person, and honest people, I heard, have a bad time at court.
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In those happy times, the capital of this state was located about twenty leagues from Ham, and the court, as a rule, did not pay much attention to what was happening in the backwater province.
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He was a slow man, absorbed in his own affairs, his habits had long been established. According to him, his mouth was full of trouble, he constantly cared about his daily bread, or rather about his own convenience and well-being, like his father before him. Garm helped the owner. None of them thought about the big world that stretched beyond their lands, beyond the village, beyond the nearest market.
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Time then flowed without any haste or fuss. After all, the vanity has nothing to do with the matter.
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