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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. 'This is a night as long as years', he said. 'How long will the day tarry?' 'Dawn is not far off', said Gamling, who had now climbed up beside him. 'But dawn will not help us, I fear' 'Yet dawn is ever the hope of men', said Aragorn.
J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
FRODO: If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
I will vouch for him before the seat of Denethor,' said Gandalf. 'And as for valour, that cannot be computed by stature. He has passed through more battles and perils than you have, Ingold, though you be twice his height; and he comes now from the storming of Isengard, of which we bear tidings, and great weariness is on him, or I would wake him. His name is Peregrin, a very valiant man.'