“Art moves them and they don't know what they've been moved by and they get quite drunk on it.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Art Copy Share Image
“Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But Olwë answered: ‘We renounce no friendship. But it may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Friend Copy Share Image
“they saw that the great mountains had marched down very near to them.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Mountains Copy Share Image
“What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the frying pan… — J.R.R. Tolkien Adventure 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
“We cannot achieve victory by arms, but by arms we can give the Ring-bearer his only chance, frail though it be.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I am tired of stairs and stone passages. i would give a good deal for the feel of grass at my toes.” — J.R.R. Tolkien J-r-r-tolkien Copy Share Image
“His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming, Mr. Frodo!' He ran… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo Copy Share Image
“The wildest imaginings that dark rumour had ever suggested to the hobbits fell altogether short of the actual dread and wonder of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fear Copy Share Image
“Back now to the mountain!" cried Thorin. "We have little time to lose." "And little food to use!" cried Bilbo, always practical… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Never in former days would any high lord of this land have constrained a man to abandon such a quest as mine.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Duty Copy Share Image
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Faramir Copy Share Image
“I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Gardening Copy Share Image
“The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Frodo, black… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“O Gandalf, best of friends, what am I to do? For now I am really afraid. What am I to do? What… — J.R.R. Tolkien Compassion Copy Share Image
“There was a lot more to that song,' said Sam, 'all about Mordor. I didn’t learn that part, it gave me the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Aragorn Copy Share Image
“Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,' said Merry. 'We have left all the rest behind,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Dream Copy Share Image
“Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang in answer a song of staying, Resisting, battling against power, Of secrets kept, strength like a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Escape Copy Share Image
“Certainly it reminds me very much of Bilbo in the last years, before he went away. He used often to say there… — J.R.R. Tolkien Business Copy Share Image
“Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Despair Copy Share Image
“Bilbo’s Last Song Day is ended, dim my eyes, But journey long before me lies. Farewell, friends! I hear the call. The… — J.R.R. Tolkien Evening Copy Share Image
“An ultimately evil job. For we are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring. And we shall (it seems) succeed. But the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Catholic Copy Share Image
“Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Darkness Copy Share Image
“Where is he?' said Frodo, looking round, as if he expected a masked and sinister figure to come out of a cupboard.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“Worst is a bad word,” I said to him, “and I hope you do not live to see it.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In the spring when the wind is in the new leaves the echo of her voice may still be heard by the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Allies Copy Share Image
“Do I hope in vain that you have been sent to me for a help in doubt and need?” — J.R.R. Tolkien Doubt Copy Share Image
“Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“They have seen Death and ultimate defeat, and yet they would not in despair retreat, but oft to victory have tuned the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Death Copy Share Image
“Farewell!” they cried, “wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!” That is the polite thing to say… — J.R.R. Tolkien Farewell Copy Share Image
“Saruman,” I said, “I have heard speeches of this kind before, but only in the mouths of emissaries sent from Mordor to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Communication Copy Share Image
“For my hope was founded on a fat man in Bree; and my fear was founded on the cunning of Sauron. But… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Sheep get like shepherd, and shepherds like sheep, it is said; but slowly, and neither have long in the world. It is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Lion Copy Share Image
“The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You speak as a friend of Túrin son of Húrin?’ said Thingol. ‘I was, but I have loved truth more and longer,’… — J.R.R. Tolkien Friendship Copy Share Image
“The counsel of Gandalf was not founded on foreknowledge of safety, for himself or for others,’ said Aragorn. ‘There are some things… — J.R.R. Tolkien Counsel Copy Share Image
