Great thread,
Inziladun!
I love all Tolkien's "proverbs", "aphorisms" "sayings, general wisdoms or whatever you like to call them. They are so applicable!
Some years ago I started collecting them - I think it was the game in "quotable quotes" that started me on this.
And for many situations in everyday life one of these proverbs comes to my mind.
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"Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise."
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Gildor's answer to Frodo one is useful when friends ask for advice in very personal matters...
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"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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Gandalf's wisdom is always a comfort and encouragement in difficult times!
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"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish"
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I use the Gaffer's down-to-earth statement to remind myself, but also for my son who is a master of procrastination!
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"For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream."
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I love Legolas' melancholy but poetical truth
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"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."
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Aragorn's words are an encouragement to me
Btw, have you checked out
The Gaffer's Mixed-up Proverbs by Esty?