My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in… — 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
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war) — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — 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
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