J.R.R. Tolkien

“One ring to rule them all.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Even darkness must pass.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Thag you mery buch.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“There is still hope.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Hail the victorious dead!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I am at home among trees.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“You cannot pass!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Rally to me! To me!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Never is too long a word even for me...”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I have more need of thought than of sleep.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Up Eorlingas! Fear no darkness!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Good stories deserve a little embellishment.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Yet dawn is ever the hope of men.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“You will soon be well, if I do not talk you to death.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Heed no nightly noises! for nothing passes door and window here save moonlight and starlight and the wind off the hill-top.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I tried to find one; but warriors are busy fighting one another in distant lands,”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Gandalf sat at the head of the party with the thirteen dwarves all round: and Bilbo sat on a stool at the…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The dark filled all the room, and the fire died down, and the shadows were lost, and still they played on. And…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“he can see through a brick wall in time (as they say in Bree). But”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“What his right name is I’ve never heard: but he’s known round here as Strider.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Satu Cincin 'tuk menguasai mereka semua, Satu Cincin 'tuk menemukan mereka semua, Satu Cincin 'tuk membawa mereka semua dan mengikat mereka dalam…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Ring a ding dillo del! derry, del, my hearties! If you come soon you'll find breakfast on the table. If you come…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Take care! I don't care. Don't you worry about me! I am as happy now as I have ever been, and that…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Roads Go Ever On Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By…

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“Yet also I should be sad,’ said Théoden. ‘For however the fortune of war shall go, may it not so end that…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is said that the skill of the Dwarves is in their hands rather than in their tongues, yet that is not…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“and all was healed and made good, and the houses were filled with men and women and the laughter of children, and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“On all this Bilbo looked with misery. He had taken his stand on Ravenhill among the Elves - partly because there was…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“even as he took her hand and kissed it, he fell into sleep. Then a great beauty was revealed in him, so…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The day waned, and dusk was twined about the boles of the trees. At last the hobbits saw, rising dimly before them,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien