“Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Step onto the road and there’s no telling where you might be swept off to.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“He used to often say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Well, well! it might be worse, and then again it might be a good deal better. No ponies, and no food, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thought of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you shall each tread are already… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“To walk in Time, perhaps, as men walk on long roads... to see the lie of old and even forgotten lands, to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Certainly it reminds me very much of Bilbo in the last years, before he went away. He used often to say there… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Roads Go Ever On Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I will vouch for him before the seat of Denethor,' said Gandalf. 'And as for valour, that cannot be computed by stature. He has passed through more battles and perils than you have, Ingold, though you be twice his height; and he comes now from the storming of Isengard, of which we bear tidings, and great weariness is on him,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“I have chosen Mr Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“he can see through a brick wall in time (as they say in Bree). But” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially "escapist," nor "fugitive." In its fairy-tale -- or otherworld -- setting, it is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“Sméagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?' 'Po-ta-toes,' said Sam. 'The Gaffer's delight, and rare good ballast for an empty belly. But you won't find any, so you needn't look. But be good Sméagol and fetch me some herbs, and I'll think better of you. What's more, if you turn over… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“But the Queen Arwen said: 'A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“If you lived near the edge of Mirkwood, you would take the word of no one that you did not know as well as… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“He was dark-haired as his mother, and promised to be like her in mood also; for he was not merry, and spoke little, though he learned to speak early and ever seemed older than his years. Túrin was slow to forget injustice or mockery; but the fire of his father was also in him, and he could be sudden and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“Sam: Mordor. The one place in Middle-earth we don't want to see any closer, and the one place we're trying to get to. It's… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
