J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.
You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.
I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.
But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.
My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.
Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.
And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.
The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).
Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.
And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.
He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.
The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.
And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took
Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
