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
You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
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
Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. — 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
“Death is their fate, the gift of Ilъvatar, which as Time wears even the Powers shall envy.” — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it. — 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
