Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near. — 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
I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Celtic 'is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come . . .… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom. — 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
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of… — 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
