“The chamber was filled with a soft light; its walls were green and silver and its roof of gold. Many Elves were… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The day waned, and dusk was twined about the boles of the trees. At last the hobbits saw, rising dimly before them,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A tree there towere Tall and branching That house upholding The hall's wonder Its leaves their hangings Its limbs rafters Its mighty… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“It is rather a strange and sad story,’ he went on after a pause. ‘When the world was young, and the woods… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Some of my kin look just like trees now, and need something great to rouse them; and they speak only in whispers.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“There were rockets like a flock of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. There were green trees with trunks of dark smoke:… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The genealogical trees at the end of the Red Book of Westmarch are a small book in themselves, and all but Hobbits… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. 'Hobbits!' he thought. 'Well, what next?… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree'… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Tom’s words laid bare the hearts of the trees and their thoughts, which were often dark and strange, filled with a hatred… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“They rested and had a light meal, talking quietly and listening from time to time. Twilight was about them as they crept… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Sheep get like shepherd, and shepherds like sheep, it is said; but slowly, and neither have long in the world. It is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“No trees grew there and it was open to the sky; stars were shining already in lakes between shores of cloud.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Only lately did I guess that Saruman was to blame, and that long ago he had been spying out all the ways,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.” — 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… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“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… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“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… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“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… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“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
