You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
