Tolkien Quotes

...With a religious book it is less what we see in it than what we see through it that matters. J. R...

Armageddon,' Sandy said. 'The final battle. The ultimate confrontation between good and evil. That's...

...and for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long for...

I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disappr...

I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never be...

It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a...

Under the Mountain dark and tallThe King has come unto his hall!His foe is dead,the Worm of Dread,An...

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

Though mortal Men have little life beside the span of the Elves, they would rather spend it in battl...

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

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

Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability ...

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not ...

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

Grief is a hone to a hard mind.

You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to...

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

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of yo...

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserable...

They made for his noise far quicker than he had expected. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart f...

His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than ...

As a lord was heldfor the strength of his body and stoutness of heart.Much lore he learned, and love...

Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.

Slowly the lights of the torches in front of Merry flicked and went out, and he was walking in a dar...

Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his ey...

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...

How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are so...

The love of Arda was set in your hearts by Ilúvatar, and he does not plant to no purpose.

But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, ...

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they ...

But Ilúvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray ofte...

Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he...

No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small cre...

Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?"...

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadi...

Hullo!” said Merry. “So that’s what is bothering you? Now, Pippin my lad, don’t forget Gildor’s sayi...

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. ...

In describing a fairy story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment,...

And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, ...

And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow d...

J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus...

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women...

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but...

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. W...

Did you know, ji,’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over centra...