{"quotes":[{"text":"Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["frodo","inspirational","lord-of-the-rings","middle-earth","motivational","tolkien"],"id":7382,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["frodo","lord-of-the-rings","middle-earth","sam","tolkien","true-love"],"id":9122,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Grief is a hone to a hard mind.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["grief","hone","middle-earth","mind","mind-power","overcoming","power","tolkien"],"id":13249,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["death","elves","man","middle-earth"],"id":63157,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["inspirational","lord-of-the-rings","middle-earth","sam-gamgee","tolkien"],"id":194524,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. If you cannot have it.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["longing","middle-earth","tolkien","wish","wishing"],"id":233316,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. 'I will take the Ring,' he said, 'though I do not know the way.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["frodo","inspirational","lord-of-the-rings","middle-earth","motivational","tolkien","vocation"],"id":281754,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"But Ilúvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony; and he said: 'These too in their time shall find that all that they do redounds at the end only to the glory of my work.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["creation","glory","illuvatar","men","middle-earth","the-silmarillion","tolkien"],"id":376103,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["generosity","give","giving","middle-earth","possessions","socialism","things","tolkien"],"id":414130,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours – closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the ring. We are horribly afraid–but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["faithfulness","friendship","frodo","lord-of-the-rings","merry","middle-earth","tolkien","true-love"],"id":426677,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}