“Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Hush, hush! Good People! and good night!" said Gandalf, who came last. "Valleys have ears, and some elves have over marry tongues.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him long ago.'… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Things are drawing to the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The fourteenth of the New Year,’ said Gandalf; ‘or if you like, the eighth day of April in the Shire-reckoning. * But… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Sam: Mordor. The one place in Middle-earth we don't want to see any closer, and the one place we're trying to get… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Fair lady!' said Frodo again after a while. 'Tell me, if my asking does not seem foolish, who is Tom Bombadil?' 'He… — j.r.r. tolkien Copy Share Image
“I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?’ ‘Such questions cannot be… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“No, I don't think any harm of old Butterbur. Only he does not altogether like mysterious vagabonds of my sort.' Frodo gave… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Glorfindel smiled. 'I doubt very much,' he said, 'if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“O Sam! cried Frodo. 'What have I said? What have I done? Forgive me! After all you have done. It is the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But I have so little of any of these things! You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?" "No!"… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But you’ve left… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Už to nemůže trvat dlouho, než skřeti zdolají bránu a všechny nás pobijí nebo zaženou dolů a zajmou. Jeden by nad tím… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Bilbo almost stopped breathing, and went stiff himself. He was desperate. He must get away, out of this horrible darkness, while he… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“All this last day Frodo had not spoken, but had walked half-bowed, often stumbling, as if his eyes no longer saw the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A mortal, Frodo, who keeps one of the Great Rings, does not die, but he does not grow or obtain more life,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“And here you will stay, Gandalf the Grey, and rest from journeys. For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman the Ring-maker, Saruman… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“And then he bent his own neck and put the chain upon it, and at once his head was bowed to the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I don't think I know your name.' 'Yes, yes my dear sir and I do know your name Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strange light. 'Smeagol will swear on… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“yes,' said Frodo. 'But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“was I chosen?’ ‘Such questions cannot be answered,’ said Gandalf. ‘You may be sure that it was not for any merit that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In those days of our tale, there were still some people who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a lonely journey -- for vengeance. If once he… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A shrill cry rang out in the night; and he felt a pain like a dart of poisoned ice pierce his left… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Then Frodo stirred and spoke with a clear voice, indeed with a voice clearer and more powerful than Sam had ever heard… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Always after a defeat and a respite," says Gandalf, "the shadow takes another shape and grows again." "I wish it need not… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Gandalf for certain this time,” he thought as he puffed along the passage. But it was not. It was two more dwarves,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The yells and yammering, croaking, gibbering and jabbering, howls and growls and curses, shrieking and shrinking that followed were beyond description. Several… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark lord, and something about the end of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“At last reluctantly Gandalf himself took a hand. Picking up a faggot he held it aloft for a moment, and then with… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I will vouch for him before the seat of Denethor,' said Gandalf. 'And as for valour, that cannot be computed by stature. He has… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“I have chosen Mr Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for there is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“Sméagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?' 'Po-ta-toes,' said Sam. 'The Gaffer's delight, and rare… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“But the Queen Arwen said: 'A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“If you lived near the edge of Mirkwood, you would take the word of no one that you did not know as well as… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“He was dark-haired as his mother, and promised to be like her in mood also; for he was not merry, and spoke little, though… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“Sam: Mordor. The one place in Middle-earth we don't want to see any closer, and the one place we're trying to get to. It's… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“Seguid si es vuestro deber —dijo—, yo me echaré aquí a dormir y a soñar con comida, ya que no puedo tenerla de otro… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“Co to mělo v kapšiškách? Nechtělo to říct, ne, milášku. Podvodníšek mrňavá. Nefér otázka. Podvádělo to první. Poruššilo to pravidla. Měli šme to žmáčknout,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share