Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Long ago certain truths were discovered... And must always reappear. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Abyss Copy Share Image
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Inspirational Copy Share Image
The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there. — J. R. R. Tolkien Country 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
Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“O! Will you be staying, Or will you be flying? Your ponies are straying! The daylight is dying! To fly would be… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could… — J. R. R. Tolkien Dragons Copy Share Image
“They shouldered their packs and took up their sticks, and walked round the corner to the west side of Bag End. 'Good-bye!'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Gardening Copy Share Image
If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just… — J. R. R. Tolkien Age Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — J. R. R. Tolkien Beast Copy Share Image
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:… — J. R. R. Tolkien Blessed Copy Share Image
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Beautiful Copy Share Image
