“The bigger things get the smaller and duller or flatter the globe gets. It is getting to be all one blasted little… — J.R.R. Tolkien Catholic Copy Share Image
“What a tale we have been in, Mr. Frodo, haven't we?' he said. 'I wish I could hear it told. Do you… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo Copy Share Image
“At first the beauty of the melodies and of the interwoven words in elven-tongues, even though he understood them little, held him… — J.R.R. Tolkien Enchantment Copy Share Image
“Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured," said Gandalf. "I fear it may be so with mine," said Frodo.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Wounded Copy Share Image
“You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree'… — J.R.R. Tolkien Myth Copy Share Image
“I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: Of wind I sang, a wind there came… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I will not debate with you Dark Elf. By the swords of the Noldor alone are your sunless woods defended. Your freedom… — J.R.R. Tolkien Freedom Copy Share Image
“With a terrible cry the Balrog fell forward, and its shadow plunged down and vanished. But even as it fell it swung… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Food Copy Share Image
“I have never been out of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“To walk in Time, perhaps, as men walk on long roads... to see the lie of old and even forgotten lands, to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Inspirational quotes Copy Share Image
“Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“It is not possible even at great length to “pot” The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two … It… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“And the Dwarf, hearing the names given in his own ancient tongue, looked up and met her eyes; and it seemed to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of Time Melkor… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strange light. 'Smeagol will swear on… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo Copy Share Image
“He heard himself crying out: Never, never! Or was it: Verily I come, I come to you? He could not tell. Then… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“[T]here were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of Ilúvatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was… — J.R.R. Tolkien Beauty Copy Share Image
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“The genealogical trees at the end of the Red Book of Westmarch are a small book in themselves, and all but Hobbits… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbits Copy Share Image
“But it is a heavy burden. So heavy that none could lay it on another. I do not lay it on you.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Burden Copy Share Image
“Its strength, Boromir, is too great for anyone to wield at will, save only those who have already a great power of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
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“A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Yes" Said Gandalf; "for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at last, dear friends,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Dear friend Copy Share Image
“Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course, but I mean: put… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Now fly off and amuse yourself. Don’t worry the moonbeams, and don’t kill my white rabbits, and come home when you are… — J.R.R. Tolkien Moon Copy Share Image
“The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbits Copy Share Image
“The lesson in caution has been well learned,' said Strider with a grim smile. 'But caution is one thing and wavering is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Caution Copy Share Image
“For LOBELIA SACKVILLE-BAGGINS, as a PRESENT;' on a case of silver spoons… Bilbo believed that she had acquired a good many of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Bilbo-baggins Copy Share Image
“Or more important, I an a Christian (which can be deduced from my stories), and in fact a Roman Catholic. The latter… — J.R.R. Tolkien Catholic Copy Share Image
“What a pity Bilbo did not stab the vile creature, when he had a chance! Pity? It was Pity that stayed his… — J.R.R. Tolkien Compassion Copy Share Image
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“Merry smiled. ‘Well then,’ he said, ‘if Strider will provide what is needed, I will smoke and think. I had some of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling! Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling. Down along under the Hill, shining… — J.R.R. Tolkien Children Copy Share Image
“Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speaking; yet now the voice seemed strange, recalling… — J.R.R. Tolkien Life Copy Share Image
“That the printer had quietly reset The Fellowship of the Ring, and that copies had been issued without proof having been read… — J.R.R. Tolkien Books Copy Share Image
“Fools!” said Bard. “Why waste words and wrath on those unhappy creatures? Doubtless they perished first in fire, before Smaug came to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fools Copy Share Image
“Gollum said nothing to them, until he had drunk deeply and washed himself in the stream. Then he came up to them,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
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