I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know… — 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
But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep… — 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
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not… — 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
The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but… — 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
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
There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but… — 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
