Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise,… — 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
