Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time. — J. R. R. Tolkien Age Copy Share Image
To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant. — J. R. R. Tolkien Cult Copy Share Image
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can. — J. R. R. Tolkien Cold Copy Share Image
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them. — J. R. R. Tolkien Funny Copy Share Image
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. — J. R. R. Tolkien Anger Copy Share Image
He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day… — J. R. R. Tolkien Disaster Copy Share Image
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life. — 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
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as… — J. R. R. Tolkien Dwarves Copy Share Image
The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Abyss Copy Share Image
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants… — J. R. R. Tolkien Language Copy Share Image
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Behind that, there was something else at work, beyond any design of the ring maker. I can put it no plainer than… — J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';… — J. R. R. Tolkien Brave Copy Share Image
They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have… — J. R. R. Tolkien Frodo Copy Share Image
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Art Copy Share Image
Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does… — J. R. R. Tolkien Blessed Copy Share Image
Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Fairy tales Copy Share Image
There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Now Fëanor's heart was still bitter at his humiliation before Mandos, and he looked at Melkor in silence, pondering if indeed he… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
