J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
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J.R.R. Tolkien Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I found not being able to use a pen or pencil as defeating as the loss of her beak would be to a hen.
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.
He will not serve, only command. He lives now in terror of the shadow of Mordor, and yet he still dreams of riding the storm. Unhappy
Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.
But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.
His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!
Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
Ring a ding dillo del! derry, del, my hearties! If you come soon you'll find breakfast on the table. If you come late you'll get grass and rain-water!
Against the coming in of evil I may do much,' she answered. 'But against the going out of those who will go, nothing.
Farmer Giles went home feeling very uncomfortable. He was finding that a local reputation may require keeping up, and that may prove awkward.
... she shone in beauty upon the shore; Long did my glance on her alight, and the longer I looked I knew her more.
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.
An old man with a staff. He had a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, a silver scarf over which his long white beard hung down
But Iluvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony
I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten.
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
You speak evil of that which is fair beyond the reach of your thought, and only little wit can excuse you.
Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible.
In her hand she held a harp, and she sang. Sad and sweet was the sound of her voice in the cool clear air.
It's got to ask uss a question, my preciouss, yes, yess, yesss. Jusst one more question to guess, yes, yess," said Gollum.
Above all shadows rides the Sun
and Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the Stars farewell.
and Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the Stars farewell.
We spend our waning strength to no avail. For till we be sure where the Dragon will pass, it is vain to climb.' 'But
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.
I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.
The fires went out, and blank darkness fell. The Company stood rooted with horror sraring into the pit.
Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.
True education is a kind of never ending story - a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.