“The forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Forest Copy Share Image
“I suppose hobbits need some descriptions nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big people, as they call us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbits Copy Share Image
“Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Compassion Copy Share Image
“I sit beside the fire and think of how the world will be when winter comes without a spring that I shall… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fire Copy Share Image
“When you are writing a complicated story, you have got to have a map.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“To me! To me! Elves and Men! To me! O my kinsfolk!” he cried, and his voice shook like a horn in… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Wonderful folk, Elves, sir! Wonderful!' 'They are,' said Frodo. 'Do you like them still, now you have had a closer view?” — J.R.R. Tolkien Elves Copy Share Image
“No trees grew there and it was open to the sky; stars were shining already in lakes between shores of cloud.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Lake Copy Share Image
“Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it were known that hobbits had… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“I wrote The Lord of the Rings because I wished ‘to try my hand at a really long story that would hold… — J.R.R. Tolkien Books Copy Share Image
“If you lived near the edge of Mirkwood, you would take the word of no one that you did not know as… — J.R.R. Tolkien Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“Frodo: Sam! Wood-Elves! They're going to the harbour beyond the White Towers. To the Grey Havens Sam: They're leaving Middle-earth. Frodo: Never… — J.R.R. Tolkien Elves Copy Share Image
“Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without… — J.R.R. Tolkien Boats Copy Share Image
“Knowing the truth about the vanishing did not lessen their opinion of Bilbo at all; for they saw that he had some… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“I am commanded to go to the land of Mordor, and therefore I shall go,' said Frodo. 'If there is only one… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo baggins Copy Share Image
“Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang in answer a song of staying, Resisting, battling against power, Of secrets kept, strength like a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Escape Copy Share Image
“Sméagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?' 'Po-ta-toes,' said Sam. 'The Gaffer's delight,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fish and chips Copy Share Image
“Elven Hymn to Elbereth Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear! O Queen beyond the Western Seas! O Light to us that wander here… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But when Aragorn arose all that beheld him gazed in silence, for it seemed to them that he was revealed to them… — J.R.R. Tolkien Aragorn Copy Share Image
“The master of the house was an elf-friend—one of those people whose fathers came into the strange stories before the beginning of… — J.R.R. Tolkien History Copy Share Image
“He muttered that he was going to get his own back. People would see if he would stand being kicked, and driven… — J.R.R. Tolkien Friendship Copy Share Image
“To the dismay of those that stood by, about the body of Saruman a grey mist gathered, and rising very slowly to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Cold wind Copy Share Image
“I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbits Copy Share Image
“Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing?” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“He was altogether wretched. He hated the dark, and he hated the light more: he hated everything, and the Ring most of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Dark Copy Share Image
“My legs must forget the miles. They would be more willing, if my heart were less heavy.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Willing heart Copy Share Image
“A thousand years this city has stood, now at the whim of a madman it will fall.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Madman Copy Share Image
“Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta!” — J.R.R. Tolkien Aragorn Copy Share Image
“Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom… — J.R.R. Tolkien Joyfulness Copy Share Image
“And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Path Copy Share Image
“As she ran her gown rustled softly like the wind in the flowering borders of a river.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“There’s earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open” — J.R.R. Tolkien Nature Copy Share Image
“We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep, and caverns old” — J.R.R. Tolkien Bilbo-baggins Copy Share Image
“The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Thus died Fingolfin, High King of the Noldor, most proud and valiant of the Elven-kings of old.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“She shone in beauty upon the shore; Long did my glance on her alight, and the longer I looked I knew her… — J.R.R. Tolkien Beauty Copy Share Image
“They say that you breathe so loud that they could shoot you in the dark.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Dark Copy Share Image
“There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Courage Copy Share Image
