J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

That's what I meant, ' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .

Wizards are always troubled about the future.

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

A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.

They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.

If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself, ' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men.

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror....

Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~ Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein ~ The Hobbit)

Not all those who wander are lost.

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.

Bilbo was sadly reflecting that adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine...

But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.''There is a long road yet, ' said Gandalf.'But it is the last road, ' said Bilbo.

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

I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.

The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result.

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!""Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

They were at the end of their journey, but as far as ever, it seemed, from the end of their quest.

I'm going on an adventure

What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the frying pan and into the fire!

In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.

it is horrible being all alone.

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

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

Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales, " said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories

Well, you can go on looking forward, " said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian, " Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.