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
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:… — 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
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
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
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
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or… — 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
Long ago certain truths were discovered... And must always reappear. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own… — 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
