Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can. — J. R. R. Tolkien Cold Copy Share Image
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. — J. R. R. Tolkien Anger Copy Share Image
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them. — J. R. R. Tolkien Funny Copy Share Image
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time. — J. R. R. Tolkien Age Copy Share Image
To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant. — J. R. R. Tolkien Cult Copy Share Image
Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay. — J. R. R. Tolkien Evil Copy Share Image
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! — J. R. R. Tolkien Enemies Copy Share Image
“Death is their fate, the gift of Ilъvatar, which as Time wears even the Powers shall envy.” — J. R. R. Tolkien Death Copy Share Image
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as… — J. R. R. Tolkien Dwarves 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
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is,… — 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 Language Copy Share Image
I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Art Copy Share Image
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';… — J. R. R. Tolkien Brave 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 Frodo Copy Share Image
Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the… — 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 Hobbit Copy Share Image
This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Ancient Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Catholic 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
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
