Tolkien Proverbs

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All’s well as ends Better! GAFFER.

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It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good. GAFFER.

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing. FRODO.

One ill turn deserves another. SARUMAN.

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The sooner the better. MERRY.

You’ve got to have grist before you can grind. COTTON.

Keep your tempers and hold your hands. FRODO.

One thing drives out another. BUTTERBUR.

There are some wounds which cannot be wholly cured. GANDALF.

There is no real going back. FRODO.

Don’t let your heads get too big for your hats. BILBO.

One thief deserves another. SARUMAN.

A beggar must be grateful, if a thief returns even a morsel of his own. SARUMAN.

Use well the days. GALADRIEL.

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A snake without fangs may crawl where he will. TREEBEARD.

Never is too long a word. TREEBEARD.

Though the fruit of the Tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake. GANDALF.