I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story.… — 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
