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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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