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… — 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… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over. — 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
I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! — 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
If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we… — 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
I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just… — 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
