"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you… — 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
