Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a mans heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a mans heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.
J.R.R. Tolkien

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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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Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a mans heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned. J.R.R. Tolkien

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a mans heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.
J.R.R. Tolkien