J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
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.
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.
No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.
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.
Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.
There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)
