“You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But if we stayed at home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That” — J.R.R. Tolkien Doom Copy Share Image
“I got stuck in the door, which was only open a crack, and I lost lots of buttons,” he said sadly looking… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You speak evil of that which is fair beyond the reach of your thought, and only little wit can excuse you.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Evil Copy Share Image
“We plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my… — J.R.R. Tolkien Death Copy Share Image
“I am like a burglar that can't get away, but must go on miserably burgling the same house day after day. —Bilbo… — J.R.R. Tolkien Burglar Copy Share Image
“The most inquisitive and curious-minded of that family was called Sméagol. He” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“shone like silver in the firelight, like water in the sun, like snow under the stars, like rain upon the Moon!” But” — J.R.R. Tolkien Moon Copy Share Image
“The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Hige sceal pe heardra, heorte pe cenre, mod sceal pe mare pe ure maegen lytlao. ( Will shall be the sterner, heart… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But handsome is as handsome does, as we say in the Shire; and I daresay we shall all look much the same… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Maedhros did deeds of surpassing valour, and the Orcs fled before his face; for since his torment upon Thangorodrim his spirit burned… — J.R.R. Tolkien Courage Copy Share Image
“Glorfindel smiled. 'I doubt very much,' he said, 'if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The… — J.R.R. Tolkien Danger Copy Share Image
“Do we really have to go through?” groaned the hobbit. “Yes, you do!” said the wizard, “if you want to get to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
“Well, well! it might be worse, and then again it might be a good deal better. No ponies, and no food, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Adversity Copy Share Image
“Farmer Giles went home feeling very uncomfortable. He was finding that a local reputation may require keeping up, and that may prove… — J.R.R. Tolkien Farmer Copy Share Image
“A large grey stone lay in the centre of the grass and he stared moodily at it or watched the great snails.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Snails Copy Share Image
“An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“And what about your companions? What about Legolas and me?’ cried Gimli, unable to contain himself longer. ‘You rascals, you woolly-footed and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Dear friend Copy Share Image
“I came in time, and I have called him back. He is weary now, and grieved, and he has taken a hurt… — J.R.R. Tolkien Time Copy Share Image
“Farewell, good thief,” he said. “I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Farewell Copy Share Image
“But of Olórin that tale does not speak; for though he loved the Elves, he walked among them unseen, or in form… — J.R.R. Tolkien Children Copy Share Image
“Are we riding far tonight, Gandalf?” asked Merry after a while. “I don’t know how you feel with small rag-tag dangling behind… — J.R.R. Tolkien Gandalf Copy Share Image
“The sun was already behind the western hills, and the light was failing. Two of Maggot’s sons and his three daughters came… — J.R.R. Tolkien Three daughters Copy Share Image
“To him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Pity Copy Share Image
“North with the wind in the left eye and a blessing on your footsteps!” — J.R.R. Tolkien Blessings Copy Share Image
“The first of Sam and Rosie’s children was born on the twenty-fifth of March, a date that Sam noted.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Children Copy Share Image
“I have quite finished, Sam,’ said Frodo. ‘The last pages are for you.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Cheerful Copy Share Image
“The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Future Copy Share Image
“But in this at least thou shalt not defy my will: to rule my own end.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Whether they've made the land, or the land's made them, it's hard to say, if you take my meaning.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Just chance brought me then, if chance you call it. It was no plan of mine, though I was waiting for you.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Chance Copy Share Image
“to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond comprehension.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Pity Copy Share Image
“But they don’t like the sun: it makes their legs wobble and their heads giddy.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Light Copy Share Image
“the 'fairy-story' is really an adult genre, and one for which a starving audience exists.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Fairy Copy Share Image
“Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar” — J.R.R. Tolkien Journey Copy Share Image
“It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the takes of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fair Copy Share Image
“At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Mind Copy Share Image
“Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Apples Copy Share Image
