J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
1: “Not all those who wander are lost.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The fellowship of the ring
2;“ Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Lord of the Rings
3:“ In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Hobbit
4:” A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hidden”
5:” Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.”
6:” So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!”
7:“ It is not despair, for despair is only for
those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Fellowship of the Ring
8:“ Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? The only thing to do! On we go!” So up he got and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Hobbit
9: “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge;
it will heal nothing.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Return of the King
10: “And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it, and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Return of the King
11: “All’s well that ends better.”
12: “His grief, he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Return of the King
13: “I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Two Towers
14: “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
15: “A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.”
16: “The hasty stroke goes oft astray.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Two Towers
17: “Oft the unbidden guest proves the best company.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Two Towers
18: “To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Two towers
19: “The wise speak only of what they know.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Two Towers
20: “But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for of,t it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Fellowship of the Ring
21: “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it, there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The Fellowship of the Ring
22: “Let them march now and sing! We have a long way to go, and there is time ahead for thought. It is something to have started.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The two Towers
23: “Such is oft 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.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
24: “The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The Two towers
25: “The Eagles! The Eagles!’ he shouted. ‘The Eagles are coming!”
26: “And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
27: “Shortcuts make delays, but inns make longer ones.”
28: “It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
29: “This only was wanting. Now comes the night.”
30: “Smeagol’ll get into real true hot water when this water boils if he don’t do as he asked.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The Two Towers
31: “It’s the job that’s never started as takes the longest to finish.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
32: “Then the sooner we’re rid of it, the sooner to rest.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The Return of the King
33: “You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
34: “Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle, I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe
Rain may fall, and wind may blow
And many miles be still to go
But under a tall tree will I lie
And let the clouds go sailing by”
35: “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The Fellowship of the Ring
36: “All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes, a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_ The fellowship of the king
37: “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the ring
38: “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
39: “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
40: “Shortcuts make long delays.”
41: “The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”
42; “They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters. I have indeed written many.”
43; “Many children make up or begin to makeup, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.”
44: “A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”
45: “Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.”
46: “I should like to save the Shire if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.”
47: “I don’t like allegories.”
48: “I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.”
49: “It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.”
50: “I wish life was not so short,’ he thought. ‘Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”
51: “The original ‘Hobbit’ was never intended to have a sequel – Bilbo ‘remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long’: a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.”
51: “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!”
52:Victory after all, I suppose! Well, it seems a very gloomy business.”
53: “Bother burgling and everything to do with it! I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!”
54: “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!”
55: “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
56: “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The two towers
57: “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
58: “Shortcuts make long delays”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
59: “The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began, Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
60: “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
61: “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien quotes_ Letter of j.j.r to c.s Lewis
62: “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien quotes_The Children of Hurin
63: “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
64: “It’s the job that’s never started as takes the longest to finish.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
65: “Yet a treacherous weapon is ever a danger to the hand.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The Two Towers
66: “Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The two Towers
67: “News from afar is seldom sooth.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The two Towers
68: “In sorrow, we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound forever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”
69: “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.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the ring
70: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien quotes_ The fellowship of the ring
71: “Myth and fairy story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world.”
72: “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
73: “Never laugh at live dragons.”
74: “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien quotes_The fellowship of the ring
75: “The world is indeed full of peril,
and in it there are many dark places;
but still, there is much that is fair,
and though in all lands love is now
mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
76: “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even, the very wise cannot see all ends.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_
77: “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The lord of the ring
78: “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
_ J.J.R.Tolkien_The return of the king.
79: “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?.. If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
80: “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?”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien quotes_The Hobbit
81: “The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
82: “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The two towers
83: “I will give you a name,’ he said to it, ‘and I shall call you Sting.”
84: “I came from the end of bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ring-winner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.”
85: “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
86: “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
89: “Still round the corner, there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
90: “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
91: “There is nothing like looking if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The HOBBIT
92: “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
93: “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
94: “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The Lord of the Rings
95: “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even, the very wise cannot see all ends.”
96: “What do you fear, lady?” [Aragorn] asked.
“A cage,” [Éowyn] said. “To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The Return Of the Ring
97: “Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The Hobbit
98: “Indeed I have not seen them roused like this for many an age. We Ents do not like being roused; and we never are roused unless it is clear to us that our trees and our lives are in great danger.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The Two Towers
99: “Velour needs first strength, and then a weapon.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
100: “Oft in lies truth is hidden.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien quotes_The fellowship of the Ring
101: “And it is also said,’ answered Frodo: ‘Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
102: “This is the Master-ring, the One Ring to rule them all. This is the One Ring that he lost many ages ago, to the great weakening of his power. He greatly desires it — but he must not get it.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
103: “Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the world was shaped.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The two Towers
104: “Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
105: “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
106:”I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed!’ he snorted. ‘Why I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change or something.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien quotes_The fellowship of the Ring
107: “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.”
_ J.R.R.Tolkien_The fellowship of the Ring
108: “All the same, I should like it all plain and clear,” said [Bilbo] obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf’s recommendation. “Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth” – by which he meant: “What am I going to get out of it? and am I going to come back alive?”
109: “If ever you are passing my way,’ said Bilbo, ‘don’t wait to knock! Tea is at four, but any of you are welcome at any time!”
110: “Very well! “said Bilbo very downcast, and also rather annoyed. ‘Come along back to your nice cells, and I will lock you all in again, and you can sit there comfortably and think of a better plan-but I don’t suppose I shall ever get hold of the keys again, even if I feel inclined to try.”
111: “I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been
Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumn that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair
I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see
For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green
I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know
But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”
112: “In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.”
113: “Middle English is an exciting field – almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces – as far as language goes, at any rate.”
114: “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.”
115: “I beg of you,” said Bilbo stammering and standing on one foot, “to accept this gift!” and he brought out a necklace of silver and pearls that Dain had given him at their parting. “In what way have I earned such a gift, O hobbit?” said the king. “Well, er, I thought, don’t you know,” said Bilbo rather confused, “that, er, some little return should be made for your, er, hospitality. I mean even a burglar has his feelings. I have drunk much of your wine and eaten much of your bread.” “I will take your gift, O Bilbo the Magnificent,” said the king gravely.
116: “It will not be long now,’ thought Bilbo, ‘before the goblins win the Gate, and we are all slaughtered or driven down and captured. Really it is enough to make one weep after all one has gone through. I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end, and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves. Misery me! I have heard songs of many battles, and I have always understood that defeat may be glorious. It seems very uncomfortable, not to say distressing. I wish I was well out of it.”
117: “Then Bilbo fled [with the cup]. But the dragon did not wake – not yet – but shifted into other dreams of greed and violence, lying there in his stolen hall while the little hobbit toiled back up the long tunnel. His heart was beating and a more fevered shaking was in his legs than when he was going down, but still, he clutched the cup, and his chief thought was: ‘I’ve done it! This will show them. ‘More like a grocer than a burglar indeed! Well, we’ll hear no more of that.”
118: “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
119: “Even the smallest person can change
the course of the future.”
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