“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
There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they… — Daniel Hannan 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
I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“Aragorn looked at him with kindly pity. 'Very well, Frodo, son of Drogo,' he said. 'You shall have an hour, and you… — 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
For sixty years, the Ring lay quiet in Bilbo's keeping, prolonging his life, delaying old age. But no longer, Frodo. Evil is… — Anonymous 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
“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
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old… — Anonymous 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
As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq.… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“And suddenly first one and then another began to sing as they played, deep-throated singing of the dwarves in the deep places… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all.… — Lord Of The Rings 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
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
It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest… — Anonymous 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
I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I,… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Frodo: We're friends of Gandalf the Grey, can you tell him we've arrived? Barliman Butterbur: Gandalf? Gandalf... Oh, yes, I remember! Elderly… — Lord Of The Rings 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
“the only thing I wanted was to walk with Frodo into Mordor. Because if I could live for a little while inside… — Sarah Arthur 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
It is evident that the grip of 'The Return of the King' on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person… — Ian Mckellen 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
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
If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No!… — Anonymous 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
To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the… — John Lanchester 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