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The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

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My Precious, my Precious.

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Aure entuluva! day shall come again!

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Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!

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And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

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Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.) (Gilraen's linnod)

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

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If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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