ttrpg-fortunes/ttrpg-appendixn

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” 

	― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Far over the misty mountains cold 
To dungeons deep and caverns old 
We must away ere break of day 
To seek the pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, 
While hammers fell like ringing bells 
In places deep, where dark things sleep, 
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord 
There many a gleaming golden hoard 
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught 
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung 
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung 
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire 
They meshed the light of moon and sun.

Far over the misty mountains cold 
To dungeons deep and caverns old 
We must away, ere break of day, 
To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves 
And harps of gold; where no man delves 
There lay they long, and many a song 
Was sung unheard by men or elves.

The pines were roaring on the height, 
The wind was moaning in the night. 
The fire was red, it flaming spread; 
The trees like torches blazed with light.

The bells were ringing in the dale 
And men looked up with faces pale; 
The dragon’s ire more fierce than fire 
Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountain smoked beneath the moon; 
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom. 
They fled their hall to dying fall 
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.

Far over the misty mountains grim 
To dungeons deep and caverns dim 
We must away, ere break of day, 
To win our harps and gold from him! 
	
	― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.” 

	― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.” 

	― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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‘I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’

‘I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!’ 

	― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter. 

	― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar,” said the dragon. 
	
	― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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May the hair on your toes never fall out! 

	― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool! 

	― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds. 

	― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again 
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“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom’s realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer’s Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.” ― Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague De Camp, Queen of the Black Coast
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“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.” ― Robert E. Howard, The Complete Chronicles of Conan
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“Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.” ― Robert E. Howard, The Complete Chronicles of Conan
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“By this axe I rule!” ― Robert E. Howard, Kull: Exile of Atlantis
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“You can’t give her that!’ she screamed. ‘It’s not safe!’ IT’S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY’RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. ‘She’s a child!’ shouted Crumley. IT’S EDUCATIONAL. ‘What if she cuts herself?’ THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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“Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
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“The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
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“It’s like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown
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“Silverfish looked down. “Oh. Are you a dwarf?” Cuddy gave him a blank stare. “Are you a giant?” He said. “Me? Of course not!” “Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.” ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
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“No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders found, after a few days, that they didn’t own their horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.” ― Terry Pratchett, Eric
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In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.*

This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people. ― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation 
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“Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.” ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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“It’s fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork,‘ he said. “We’ve got three hundred and sixty-three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon’s about to break and we’re wearing… we’re wearing… sort of things, like glass, only dark… dark glass things on our eyes…” ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures