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
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs). — 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
"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
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
Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good… — 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
'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war) — 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
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
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
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or… — 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
