“The Company of the Ring shall be Nine; and the Nine Walkers shall be set against the Nine Riders that are evil.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Business 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 J-r-r-tolkien Copy Share Image
“and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Blessedness Copy Share Image
“he caught sight of Dwalin’s green hood hanging up. He hung his red one next to it, and “Balin at your service!” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Gandalf for certain this time,” he thought as he puffed along the passage. But it was not. It was two more dwarves,” — J.R.R. Tolkien Dwarves Copy Share Image
“The sound of her footsteps was like a stream falling gently downhill over cool stones in the quiet of night.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You may ask what is the use of my deeds when they are proved useless.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Deeds Copy Share Image
“I found not being able to use a pen or pencil as defeating as the loss of her beak would be to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Bird Copy Share Image
“... but there lies a pain and longing in his eyes, a look of horror as he sees a batlike form crawl… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Walk no more in the shadows, but awake!' said Aragorn. 'You are weary. Rest a while, and take food, and be ready… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Put on a few eggs, there’s a good fellow!” Gandalf called after him, as the hobbit stumped off to the pantries. “And… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like a mad… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo Copy Share Image
“As I lay in prison, Sam, I tried to remember the Brandywine, and Woody End, and The Water running through the mill… — J.R.R. Tolkien J-r-r-tolkien Copy Share Image
“No more debates disturbed his mind. He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. His will was… — J.R.R. Tolkien Mind Copy Share Image
“Still that must be expected,' said Gandalf to himself. 'He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in… — J.R.R. Tolkien Elrond Copy Share Image
“The chance never arrived, until Bilbo Baggins was grown up, being about fifty years old or so, and living in the beautiful… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Anthropology Copy Share Image
“Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes like a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowndilly, small and slender like. Hard… — J.R.R. Tolkien Beautiful Copy Share Image
“At the hill’s foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Legolas watched them for awhile with a smile upon his lips, and then he turned to the others. 'The strongest must seek… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Then Eomer was silent, and looked on his sister, as if pondering anew all the days of their past life together. But… — J.R.R. Tolkien Life Copy Share Image
“I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?’ ‘Such questions cannot be… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“His head and beard wagged this way and that as he looked for the stones, and they followed his lead, but they… — J.R.R. Tolkien Leadership Copy Share Image
“That Tolkien also included in Roverandom words such as paraphernalia, and phosphorescent, primordial, and rigmarole, is refreshing in these later days when… — J.R.R. Tolkien Books Copy Share Image
“These are indeed strange days,’ he (Éomer) muttered. ‘Dreams and legends spring to life out of the grass.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Dreams Copy Share Image
“Dwarves’ tongues run on when speaking of their handiwork, they say.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Dwarves Copy Share Image
“in her hand she held a harp, and she sang. Sad and sweet was the sound of her voice in the cool… — J.R.R. Tolkien Galadriel Copy Share Image
“In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Evil Copy Share Image
“Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Apples Copy Share Image
“the 'fairy-story' is really an adult genre, and one for which a starving audience exists.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Fairy Copy Share Image
“It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the takes of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fair Copy Share Image
“Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar” — J.R.R. Tolkien Journey Copy Share Image
“At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Mind Copy Share Image
“But they don’t like the sun: it makes their legs wobble and their heads giddy.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Light Copy Share Image
“Nay, the guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door. Nay,” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“For of us is required a blind trust, and a hope without assurance, knowing not what lies before us in a little… — J.R.R. Tolkien Blind trust Copy Share Image
“For MILO BURROWS, hoping it will be useful from B.B.; on a gold pen and ink-bottle. Milo never answered letters.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Bilbo-baggins Copy Share Image
“You are right, Frodo,’ said Gandalf: ‘to go back is to admit defeat, and face worse defeat to come.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Defeat Copy Share Image
“Alas! An ill fate is on me this day, and all that I do goes amiss!” — J.R.R. Tolkien Aragorn Copy Share Image
“But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Decision Copy Share Image
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