J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes

Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.) (Gilraen's linnod)

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.

The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

I don't deny it," said Frodo, looking at Sam, who was now grinning. "I don't deny it, but I'll never believe you are sleeping again, whether you snore or not. I shall kick you hard to make sure.

The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.

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!

Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!

Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.

How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember.

His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.

If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

We must do without hope.

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

Hush! Take no notice!" - Gandalf

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

Yes, they are elves," Legolas said. "and they say that you breathe so loud they could shoot you in the dark." Sam hastily covered his mouth.

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.

And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.

I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.

He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun

Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!

If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!

The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest

They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

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.

Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!

Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!

Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?

What punishments of God are not gifts?

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.

Mind your P's and Q's.

For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.