“You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo Copy Share Image
“You have had some very strange adventures, I hear,’ said Glóin. ‘I wonder greatly what brings four hobbits on so long a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
“It is less easy to find people in the woods and fields.And if you are supposed to be on the road,there is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo Copy Share Image
“King! Did you hear that? What did I say? The hands of a healer, I said.’ And soon the word had gone… — J.R.R. Tolkien War Copy Share Image
“When evening in the Shire was grey his footsteps on the Hill were heard; before the dawn he went away on journey… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but… — J.R.R. Tolkien Courage Copy Share Image
“I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Happy family Copy Share Image
“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Poetry Copy Share Image
“Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part… — J.R.R. Tolkien Evil Copy Share Image
“The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“What did I tell you? Something's happening!' cried Sam. '"The war's going well," said Shagrat; but Gorbag he wasn't so sure. And… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Gimli Glóin’s son, have you your axe ready?’ ‘Nay, lord,’ said Gimli, ‘but I can speedily fetch it, if there be need.’… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“For suddenly above him far and faint his song was taken up, and a voice answering called to him. Maedhros it was… — J.R.R. Tolkien Without hope Copy Share Image
“I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed!’… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Sam looked at his master with approval, but also with surprise: there was a look in his face and a tone in… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“But how came you by the heirloom of my house—if there is need to ask such a question of thieves?” “We are… — J.R.R. Tolkien Thieves Copy Share Image
“There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo baggins Copy Share Image
“Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fellowship of the ring Copy Share Image
“But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used… — J.R.R. Tolkien Coming home Copy Share Image
“The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen Of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Long ago Copy Share Image
“But the Queen Arwen said: 'A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go… — J.R.R. Tolkien Children Copy Share Image
“Lurking by a stagnant mere, peering in the water as the dark eve fell, I caught him, Gollum. He was covered with… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“Hush!" said Gandalf from the shadows at the back of the porch. "Evil things do not come into this valley; but all… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo baggins Copy Share Image
“This book is thus primarily addressed to such readers as may perhaps recall that the hide of Shelob was so horrendously hard… — J.R.R. Tolkien Books Copy Share Image
“In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory;… — J.R.R. Tolkien Aragorn Copy Share Image
“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous “turn” (for… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fairy Copy Share Image
“Although now long estranged, Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed. Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned, and keeps… — J.R.R. Tolkien Creator Copy Share Image
“The Balrog reached the bridge. Gandalf stood in the middle of the span, leaning on the staff in his left hand, but… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange...How shall a man judge… — J.R.R. Tolkien Good and evil Copy Share Image
“Frodo drew the Ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and smooth, without mark or… — J.R.R. Tolkien 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
“Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" Then Merry heard in all sounds of the hour the strangest. It… — J.R.R. Tolkien Eowyn Copy Share Image
“Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows The West Wind goes walking, and about the walls it goes.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“It was dark and dim all day. From the sunless dawn until evening the heavy shadow had deepened, and all hearts in… — J.R.R. Tolkien Dark Copy Share Image
“In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep… — J.R.R. Tolkien Love Copy Share Image
“The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hospitality Copy Share Image
“Thus he began the payment of anguish for the fate that was laid on him; and in his fate Lúthien was caught,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Suffering 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 Aragorn Copy Share Image
