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I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. -Frodo Baggins

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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 ...more

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Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

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A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be sp...more

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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?''As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear...It is a man's...more

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Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant o...more

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I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I u...more

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The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.

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Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might s...more

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It's the deep breath before the plunge.

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

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His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!

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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

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And she answered: 'All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you...more

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Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.