Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay. — J. R. R. Tolkien Evil Copy Share Image
Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now. — J. R. R. Tolkien Care Copy Share Image
“Death is their fate, the gift of Ilъvatar, which as Time wears even the Powers shall envy.” — J. R. R. Tolkien Death Copy Share Image
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! — J. R. R. Tolkien Enemies 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 Beer Copy Share Image
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue… — J. R. R. Tolkien Birth Copy Share Image
Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there. — J. R. R. Tolkien Country Copy Share Image
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 Inspirational Copy Share Image
If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“O! Will you be staying, Or will you be flying? Your ponies are straying! The daylight is dying! To fly would be… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know… — 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
But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Beautiful Copy Share Image
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:… — J. R. R. Tolkien Blessed 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 Analysis Copy Share Image
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J. R. R. Tolkien Botany Copy Share Image
It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house… — J. R. R. Tolkien Doom Copy Share Image
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world. — J. R. R. Tolkien Beauty Copy Share Image
A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity. — J. R. R. Tolkien Desire Copy Share Image
I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings. — J. R. R. Tolkien Complexes Copy Share Image
If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over. — J. R. R. Tolkien Friendliness Copy Share Image
It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. — J. R. R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. — J. R. R. Tolkien Distrust Copy Share Image
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
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