Stills Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

9 Stills quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Tolkien built vast realms, yet he also noted the power of a pause. Across nine brief statements he shares how stillness can shape legend, giving readers a quick, wondrous glimpse of his thought.

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The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We…

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Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred…

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I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful…

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The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are…

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I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could…

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So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or…

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The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and…

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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor…

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And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you…

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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

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No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

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If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.

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The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And…

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It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort

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Adventures make one late for supper.

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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

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I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

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Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

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Mind your P's and Q's.

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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.

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Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

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You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

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The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to…

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