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Don't the great tales never end? — J.R.R. Tolkien

Art moves them and they don't know what they've been moved by and they get quite drunk on it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Unmasking the intentions of a Satanic character: He cannot be both counselor and tyrant. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them — J.R.R. Tolkien

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Do not speak before your master, whose wit is greater than yours. And — J.R.R. Tolkien

Why couldn't he stop talking and let them drink his health? — J.R.R. Tolkien

for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Is everything sad going to come untrue? — J.R.R. Tolkien

The banquet was very splendid, however, though I had a bad cold at the time, I remember, and could only say 'thag you very buch'. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Then Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The world was fair, the mountains tall
In Elder Days before the fall ... — J.R.R. Tolkien

I am getting very old, and I began to wonder if I should ever live to see your chapters of our story. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Farewell Aragorn. Go to Minas Tirith and save my people! I have failed. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle. — J.R.R. Tolkien

All shall love me and despair. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I have some counsel for hardy hearts.' The — J.R.R. Tolkien

he did not reckon with the power that gold has upon which a dragon has long brooded, nor with dwarvish hearts. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkienist (n.) Someone who studies the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. — Leslie Simon

Because, I thought, a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor. — Ransom Riggs

We plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my heart. — J.R.R. Tolkien

And that was the end of Smaug — J.R.R. Tolkien

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- - that and such hope as I bring. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory. — J.R.R. Tolkien

He had not done any strenuous walking for a long time, and the reflection looked rather flabby, — J.R.R. Tolkien

You're a booby," said William. "Booby yerself!" said Tom. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars shine upon your faces! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's got to ask uss a question, my preciouss, yes, yess, yesss. Jusst one more question to guess, yes, yess," said Gollum. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I am nearly twenty-nine, so I pass you there; though I am but four feet, and not likely to grow any more, save sideways. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with! — J.R.R. Tolkien

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes. — J.R.R. Tolkien

In this meeting there may be more than chance; — J.R.R. Tolkien

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament ... — J.R.R. Tolkien

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate. — Tom Shippey

There was more than one power at work, Frodo. The — J.R.R. Tolkien

I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Yes, yes, my dear sir - and I do know your name, Mr. Bilbo Baggins. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Aragorn, the greatest traveller and huntsman of this age of the world. Together — J.R.R. Tolkien

A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Bilbo of course ought to have been on his guard; but Smaug had rather an overwhelming personality. — J.R.R. Tolkien

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Adventures make one late for supper. — J.R.R. Tolkien

But I already know a little, and I can read more in your face and in the thought behind your questions. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I believe legends and myths are largely made of truth.. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin! — J.R.R. Tolkien

May your beards never grow thin! — J.R.R. Tolkien

His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet and good tilled earth. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Strength is not created by adversity; it is merely awakened by it. — Mark Eddy Smith

He liked visitors, but he liked to know them before they arrived, and he preferred to ask them himself. — J.R.R. Tolkien

And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I think I know already what counsel you would give, Boromir," said Frodo. "And it would seem like wisdom but for the warning of my heart. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I am Gandalf," said the wizard. "Never heard of him," growled the man. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Follow what may, great deeds are not lessened in worth. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye! — J.R.R. Tolkien

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. — J.R.R. Tolkien

When heads are at a loss bodies must serve. — J.R.R. Tolkien

oft evil will shall evil mar. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Already the hour had struck, and at his great Master's bidding he must march with war into the West. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?"
I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going. — J.R.R. Tolkien

My Precious, my Precious. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Farewell!' he said to Gandalf. 'I go to find the Sun! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Great heart will not be denied. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The Goblins were the foes of all, and at their coming all other quarrels were forgotten. — J.R.R. Tolkien

But it is not for thy valour only that I send thee, but to bring into the world a hope beyond thy sight, and a light that shall pierce the darkness. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Elves are wondrous fair to look upon. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women. — Neil Gaiman

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads. — J.R.R. Tolkien

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The treasure is likely to be your death, though the dragon is no more! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something. — J.R.R. Tolkien

a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor. We — Ransom Riggs

Eat broccoli. And cauliflower, cabbage, and other stuff that looks like it came out of a mini Tolkien forest. — Steve Edwards

Tom's country ends here: he will not pass the borders. Tom has his house to mind, and Goldberry is waiting! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I look foul and feel fair. — J.R.R. Tolkien

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You shall not pass! — J.R.R. Tolkien

And if you do come back, you will never be the same — J.R.R. Tolkien

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Far over misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Memory is not what the heart desires. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Chapter I AN UNEXPECTED PARTY — J.R.R. Tolkien

I will not walk backwards in life. — J.R.R. Tolkien

No great leap for a man, but a leap in the dark. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. — J.R.R. Tolkien

This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great. — J.R.R. Tolkien

No Victory Without Suffering — J.R.R. Tolkien

Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene. — Ian McKellen