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“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (via thequotejournals)

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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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(for the character poetry thingy) THORIN PLS

“I refuse to—be. Inthe madhouse of the inhumansI refuse to—live.To swim

on the current of human spines.I don’t need holes in my ears, no need for seeing eyes.I refuse to swim on the current of human spines.

To your mad world—one answer: I refuse.”

marina tsvetaeva, poems to czechoslovakia (trns. by ilya kaminsky )

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“and her smile - it forges galaxies and fosters life in a barren world but oh, her rage - it shatters the stars and brings constellations to their knees”

— a big bang of its own // s.g (via verbosities)

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“There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest, endless as these long nights of winter and yet that ghastly sadness, that mourning for their own, irremediable appetites, can never move the heart for not one phrase in it hints at the possibility of redemption; grace could not come to the world from its own despair, only through some external mediator, so that, sometimes, the beast will look as if he half welcomes the knife that despatches him.”

— Angela Carter, from The Company of Wolves (via soracities)

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“…perhaps from the dark roots flowers will suddenly pierce the ground and flowers of the same nature. I don’t know. Perhaps when this happens I shall regret the chaos, the darkness.”

— Anaïs Nin, from Nearer the Moon: The Previously Unpublished Unexpurgated Diary, 1937-1939 (via luthienne)

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“We sense the fairytale terror-allure of the muted woods.”

— Tim Dee, ‘Poetry Please: The Poetic Pulse of a Nation’ originally published in The Guardian. (via mythic-substrata)

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“her heart was a dark forest, her soul all the wild things which dwelt between the trees.”

— night curses and other lullabies // l.e. wildë (via mostruositas)

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Terry Pratchett

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Franz Kafka, in a letter to Milena Jesenská, from Letters to Milena.

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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[Text ID: What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.]

— Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places

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when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’

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[Text ID: In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it is a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having met a new face, crossed a street we never crossed before. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.]

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Author’s Note” from The Left Hand of Darkness

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“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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Lit. Meme - 3 Genres: High Fantasy

Notable Authors: J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G.R.R. Martin 

High fantasy is defined as fantasy fiction set in an alternative, entirely fictional (“secondary”) world, rather than the real, or “primary” world. The secondary world is usually internally consistent but its rules differ in some way(s) from those of the primary world. By contrast, low fantasy is characterized by being set in the primary, or “real” world, or a rational and familiar fictional world, with the inclusion of magical elements.

These stories are often serious in tone and epic in scope, dealing with themes of grand struggle against supernatural, evil forces.

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