Už to nemůže trvat dlouho, než skřeti zdolají bránu a všechny nás pobijí nebo zaženou dolů a zajmou. Jeden by nad tím opravdu plakal, po tom všem, čím prošel. Byl by radši, kdyby celý ten mizerný poklad zůstal starému Šmakovi, než aby ho dostaly tyhle podivné stvůry a než aby chudák starý Bombur a Balin a Fili a Kili a všichni ostatní takhle špatně skončili; a taky Bard a Jezerní lidé a také ti veselí elfové. Jaká bída!

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The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.

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Death is their fate, the gift of Ilъvatar, which as Time wears even the Powers shall envy.

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those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.

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I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

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Gandalf looked at him. My dear Bilbo! he said. Something is the matter with you! You are not the hobbit that you were.

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And the others were thinking equally gloomy thoughts, although when they had said good-bye to Elrond in the high hope of a midsummer morning, they' had spoken gaily of the passage of the mountains, and of riding swift across the lands beyond. They had thought of coming to the secret door in the Lonely Mountain, perhaps that very next first moon of Autumn - 'and perhaps it will be Durin's Day' they had said. Only Gandalf had shaken his head and said nothing.

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Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.

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I have... I have never used a sword in my life.

And I hope you never have to. But if you do, remember this: true courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

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These are indeed strange days,’ he (Éomer) muttered. ‘Dreams and legends spring to life out of the grass.

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