I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity. — J. R. R. Tolkien Desire Copy Share Image
A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now. — J. R. R. Tolkien Care Copy Share Image
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world. — J. R. R. Tolkien Beauty Copy Share Image
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. — J. R. R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Where was I? O yes- I was not grabbed. I killed a goblin or two with a flash-" "Good!" growled Beorn. "It… — J. R. R. Tolkien Gandalf Copy Share Image
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall… — J. R. R. Tolkien Fire Copy Share Image
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Apartheid Copy Share Image
You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that… — J. R. R. Tolkien Allegory Copy Share Image
I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In later days he [Olórin] dearly loved the Children of Eru, and took pity on their sorrows. Those who hearkened to him… — J. R. R. Tolkien Children Copy Share Image
I don't see why the likes o' thee Without axin' leave should go makin' free With the shank or the shin o'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Deeds Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred… — J. R. R. Tolkien Contempt Copy Share Image
He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a… — J. R. R. Tolkien Cold Copy Share Image
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe… — J. R. R. Tolkien Atheism Copy Share Image
“Then Bilbo remembered his ring! "Well I'm blessed!" said he. "This invisibility has its drawbacks after all. Otherwise I suppose I might… — J. R. R. Tolkien Bilbo-baggins Copy Share Image
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. — J. R. R. Tolkien Distrust Copy Share Image
Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings. — J. R. R. Tolkien Complexes Copy Share Image
If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over. — J. R. R. Tolkien Friendliness Copy Share Image
Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse. — J. R. R. Tolkien Battle 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
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its… — J. R. R. Tolkien Allegory Copy Share Image
The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Aesthetic Copy Share Image
But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages! — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
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