Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Behind that, there was something else at work, beyond any design of the ring maker. I can put it no plainer than… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Then Bilbo remembered his ring! "Well I'm blessed!" said he. "This invisibility has its drawbacks after all. Otherwise I suppose I might… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You'll live to regret it, young fellow! Why didn't you go too? You don't belong here; you're no Baggins—you—you're a Brandybuck!' 'Did… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I am torn in two’ […] ‘Poor Sam! It might feel like that, I’m afraid,’ said Frodo. ‘But you will be healed.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam) — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped… — 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