Time Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

11 Time quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

Tolkien treated time as a thread woven through his worlds, and here ten concise reflections echo that sense of deep, lingering history. Readers will sense the same reverence for ages past that fuels his stories.

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For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal…

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My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto…

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Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants…

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I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know…

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There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have…

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I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too…

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We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not…

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Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good…

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My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story.…

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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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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,…

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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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