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Mind your P's and Q's. — J.R.R. Tolkien

To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant. — J.R.R. Tolkien

There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people. — Ian McKellen

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

Great Elephants!" said Gandalf, "you are not at all yourself this morning - you have never dusted the mantelpiece!" "What's that got to do with it? — J.R.R. Tolkien

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there. — J.R.R. Tolkien

While there's life there's hope!' as my father used to say, and 'Third time pays for all. — J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God. — Philip Zaleski

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

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. — 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

Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?"
"Po-ta-toes!" said Sam. — 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

To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door! — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's a dangerous business, going out your door. — 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

Quite a merry gathering! ... What's that? Tea! No thank you! A little red wine, I think for me. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo! — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

The first of Sam and Rosie's children was born on the twenty-fifth of March, a date that Sam noted. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey's end! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen. — Evangeline Lilly

There's a very strong force in Tolkien's characters. — Richard C. Armitage

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy? — George R R Martin

All's well that ends better. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Mere flight in a dream you say. In dream many desires are revealed; and desire may be the last flicker of Estel. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A new hour comes. Isildur's Bane is found. Battle is at hand. The Sword shall be reforged. I will come to Minas Tirith.' 'Isildur's — J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines. — Richard C. Armitage

Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. "There never was much hope," he answered. "Just a fool's hope, as I have been told. — J.R.R. Tolkien

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf — Christopher Paolini

But all's well as ends well; — J.R.R. Tolkien

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Some things are ill to hear when the world's in shadows. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole? said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's some kind of Elvish.I can't read it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's more comfortable standing still thinking of nothing. — J.R.R. Tolkien

For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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. — J.R.R. Tolkien

There's earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open,' said Tom. It — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's the deep breath before the plunge. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Step onto the road and there's no telling where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic. — Terry Pratchett

We renounce no friendship. But it may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. And — J.R.R. Tolkien

while Tolkien's stories were not historically real, they were true — Devin Brown

I wonder,' said Frodo. 'It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found. But will good or evil show it to me? — J.R.R. Tolkien

Bilbo shut his mouth tight with a snap. "That's right," said Gandalf. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Few can see wither their road will lead them, till they comes to it's end. - Gimli — J.R.R. Tolkien

Whether they've made the land, or the land's made them, it's hard to say, if you take my meaning. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: 'Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different. — John Boorman

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

Frodo! Mr. Frodo, my dear!' cried Sam, tears almost blinding him. 'It's Sam, I've come!' He half lifted his master and hugged him to his breast. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If that's being queer, then we could do with a bit more queerness in these parts. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining. — Sully Tarnish

Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill. — J.R.R. Tolkien

That's done it! Now I've rung the front-door bell! — J.R.R. Tolkien

The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death. — J.R.R. Tolkien

And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it. — Jo Walton

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful. — A.S. Byatt

Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. — John Howe

Snow's all right on a fine morning, but I like to be in bed when it's falling — J.R.R. Tolkien

He caught sight of Dwalin's green hood hanging up. He hung his red one next to it, and Balin at your service! — 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

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

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