“Victory after all, I suppose!…Well, it seems a very gloomy business.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Gloomy Copy Share Image
“I stood alone on an island in the clouds; and I had no chance of escape, and my days were bitter.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Island Copy Share Image
“If I choose to send thee, Tuor son of Huor, then believe not that thy one sword is not worth the sending.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A light like the glint of water on dewy grass flashed from under her feet as she danced.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Dance Copy Share Image
“I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Art moves them and they don't know what they've been moved by and they get quite drunk on it.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Art Copy Share Image
“Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But Olwë answered: ‘We renounce no friendship. But it may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Friend Copy Share Image
“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 Flower Copy Share Image
“But if I had spoken sooner, it would not have lessened your desire, or made it easier to resist. On the contrary!… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But her beauty was more than their beauty, and her sorrow deeper than their sorrows; and she knelt before Mandos and sang… — J.R.R. Tolkien Beauty Copy Share Image
“We're going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Books Copy Share Image
“I don't think I know your name.' 'Yes, yes my dear sir and I do know your name Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks,” answered Gandalf, who knew the correct… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Seldom will Orcs journey in the open under the sun, yet these have done so,’ said Legolas. ‘Certainly they will not rest… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,’ he said slowly, ‘likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“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 Hobbit Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Tom’s words laid bare the hearts of the trees and their thoughts, which were often dark and strange, filled with a hatred… — J.R.R. Tolkien Trees Copy Share Image
“He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's… — J.R.R. Tolkien Golf Copy Share Image
“Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is no escape. Marriage may help to sanctify and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Christian marriage Copy Share Image
“They rested and had a light meal, talking quietly and listening from time to time. Twilight was about them as they crept… — J.R.R. Tolkien Moon Copy Share Image
“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 Hobbits Copy Share Image
“Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!" A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the Nazgûl and his… — J.R.R. Tolkien Eowyn Copy Share Image
“they saw that the great mountains had marched down very near to them.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Mountains Copy Share Image
“What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the frying pan… — J.R.R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
“I am tired of stairs and stone passages. i would give a good deal for the feel of grass at my toes.” — J.R.R. Tolkien J-r-r-tolkien Copy Share Image
“Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Decision Copy Share Image
“We cannot achieve victory by arms, but by arms we can give the Ring-bearer his only chance, frail though it be.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Worst is a bad word,” I said to him, “and I hope you do not live to see it.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Where is he?' said Frodo, looking round, as if he expected a masked and sinister figure to come out of a cupboard.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Darkness Copy Share Image
“In the spring when the wind is in the new leaves the echo of her voice may still be heard by the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Allies Copy Share Image
“Do I hope in vain that you have been sent to me for a help in doubt and need?” — J.R.R. Tolkien Doubt Copy Share Image
“The misty morning crawleth grey from dusk to the reluctant day.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Dusk Copy Share Image
“The ring!" exclaimed Frodo. 'Has he left me that? I wonder why. Still, it may be useful.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo baggins Copy Share Image
“These too in their time shall find that all that they do redounds at the end only to the glory of my… — J.R.R. Tolkien Beginning Copy Share Image
