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The Fellowship of the Ring · 1954
Not all those who wander are lost.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A life without an obvious route can still have direction. In the poem, Aragorn’s wandering conceals the purpose and inheritance that others cannot yet recognise.
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In context
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In The Fellowship of the Ring, this line belongs to Bilbo’s verse about Aragorn, included in Gandalf’s letter to Frodo. The poem describes a hidden identity whose worth is not obvious from outward appearances. This page credits the verse’s in-world author rather than treating the sentence as spoken film dialogue.
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- The Fellowship of the Ring, Wikiquotesection 'Strider'Reference checked
- Aragorn, WikipediaFiction summaryReference checked
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