The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark place…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Lord of the Rings: One Volume, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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