Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam) — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Behind that, there was something else at work, beyond any design of the ring maker. I can put it no plainer than… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Then Bilbo remembered his ring! "Well I'm blessed!" said he. "This invisibility has its drawbacks after all. Otherwise I suppose I might… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You'll live to regret it, young fellow! Why didn't you go too? You don't belong here; you're no Baggins—you—you're a Brandybuck!' 'Did… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I am torn in two’ […] ‘Poor Sam! It might feel like that, I’m afraid,’ said Frodo. ‘But you will be healed.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
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. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
![“I am torn in two’ […] ‘Poor Sam! It might feel like that, I’m afraid,’ said Frodo. ‘But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be.’ [...] ‘Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much…” quote by J. R. R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/084/j-r-r-tolkien-2-1316_family_i-am-torn-in-two-poor-sam-it-might-feel_1867843.png)
