Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.
("The Fellowship of the Ring")
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And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?
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My dear Frodo! Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all there is to know about them in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.
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