“They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“No more debates disturbed his mind. He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. His will was… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Well, I’ve made up my mind, anyway. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf – mountains; and then find somewhere where I… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“They walked as it were in a black vapour wrought of veritable darkness itself that, as it was breathed, brought blindness not… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Behold your Music! This is your minstrelsy; and each of you shall find contained herein, amid the design that I set before… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Sam's hand wavered. His mind was hot with wrath and the memory of evil. I would be just to slay this treacherous,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it...And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“He heard himself crying out: Never, never! Or was it: Verily I come, I come to you? He could not tell. Then as a flash from some other point of power there came to his mind another thought: Take it off! Take it off! Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring! The two powers strove in him. For a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it speaks of bread or wine or stone or tree, it appeals to the whole of these things, to their ideas; yet each hearer will give to them a peculiar personal embodiment in his imagination. Should the story say… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“We shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Indeed the mind of Ilúvatar concerning you is not known to the Valar, and he has not revealed all things that are… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speaking; yet now the voice seemed strange, recalling… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I will vouch for him before the seat of Denethor,' said Gandalf. 'And as for valour, that cannot be computed by stature. He has passed through more battles and perils than you have, Ingold, though you be twice his height; and he comes now from the storming of Isengard, of which we bear tidings, and great weariness is on him,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“I have chosen Mr Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“he can see through a brick wall in time (as they say in Bree). But” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially "escapist," nor "fugitive." In its fairy-tale -- or otherworld -- setting, it is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“Sméagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?' 'Po-ta-toes,' said Sam. 'The Gaffer's delight, and rare good ballast for an empty belly. But you won't find any, so you needn't look. But be good Sméagol and fetch me some herbs, and I'll think better of you. What's more, if you turn over… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“But the Queen Arwen said: 'A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“If you lived near the edge of Mirkwood, you would take the word of no one that you did not know as well as… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“He was dark-haired as his mother, and promised to be like her in mood also; for he was not merry, and spoke little, though he learned to speak early and ever seemed older than his years. Túrin was slow to forget injustice or mockery; but the fire of his father was also in him, and he could be sudden and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share
“Sam: Mordor. The one place in Middle-earth we don't want to see any closer, and the one place we're trying to get to. It's… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
