“For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, but it… — J.R.R. Tolkien Garden Copy Share Image
“They walked as it were in a black vapour wrought of veritable darkness itself that, as it was breathed, brought blindness not… — J.R.R. Tolkien Darkness Copy Share Image
“Sing now, ye people of the Tower of Anor, for the Realm of Sauron is ended for ever, and the Dark Tower… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“Where and what are Helm’s Deep and all the rest of it?” said Merry. “I don’t know anything about this country.” “Then… — J.R.R. Tolkien Aragorn Copy Share Image
“As you go down the water,’ he said, ‘you will find that the trees will fail, and you will come to a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Directions Copy Share Image
“I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But the helm of her secrecy had fallen from her, and her bright hair, released from its bonds, gleamed with pale gold… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have… — J.R.R. Tolkien Catholic Copy Share Image
“We're going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Books Copy Share Image
“In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“All his court were cast down in slumber, and all the fires faded and were quenched; but the Silmarils in the crown… — J.R.R. Tolkien Beauty Copy Share Image
“Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But you’ve left… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“The king was silent. "Ents!" he said at length. "Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Life Copy Share Image
“If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in her eyes. Very fair was her… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But, but, lord," Merry stammered, "I offered you my sword. I do not want to be parted from you like this, Theoden… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect 'history' to be anything but a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Catholic Copy Share Image
“It will be seen that the form of the mountain’s spurs were very much [the] same as they appear on Thror’s map… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“If we use child in a good sense (it has also legitimately a bad one) we must not allow that to push… — J.R.R. Tolkien Adulthood Copy Share Image
“A shrill cry rang out in the night; and he felt a pain like a dart of poisoned ice pierce his left… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fellowship of the ring Copy Share Image
“she was afraid, as much of the great pillared hall and the roof of stone as of the company of many eyes… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“They sat beside the stone, and did not speak again; and when the sun went down Morwen sighed and clasped his hand,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“And as the captains gazed south to the Land of Mordor, it seemed to them that, black against the pall of cloud,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Saruman rose to his feet, and stared at Frodo. There was a strange look in his eyes of mingled wonder and respect… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo Copy Share Image
“Upon the further side, some way within the valley's arms, high on a rocky seat upon the black knees of the Ephel… — J.R.R. Tolkien Dark Copy Share Image
“There were rockets like a flock of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. There were green trees with trunks of dark smoke:… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Then the boat turned towards me, and stayed its pace, and floated slowly by within my hand's reach, yet I durst not… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The appalling destruction and misery of this war mount hourly: destruction of what should be (indeed it is) the common wealth of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Catholic Copy Share Image
“Halflings! But they are only a little people in old songs and children’s tales out of the North. Do we walk in… — J.R.R. Tolkien Children Copy Share Image
“Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fairy Copy Share Image
“It was now Frodo's turn to feel pleased with himself. He capered about on the table; and when he came up a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Fellowship Copy Share Image
“Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. The change in the wizard’s voice was astounding. Suddenly it… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Už to nemůže trvat dlouho, než skřeti zdolají bránu a všechny nás pobijí nebo zaženou dolů a zajmou. Jeden by nad tím… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“But this is terrible!’ cried Frodo. ‘Far worse than the worst that I imagined from your hints and warnings. O Gandalf, best… — J.R.R. Tolkien Compassion Copy Share Image
“Then Frodo stirred and spoke with a clear voice, indeed with a voice clearer and more powerful than Sam had ever heard… — J.R.R. Tolkien Frodo Copy Share Image
“It was in this way that he learned where Gandalf had been to; for he overheard the words of the wizard to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Books Copy Share Image
“You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us… — J.R.R. Tolkien Friendship Copy Share Image
“Always after a defeat and a respite," says Gandalf, "the shadow takes another shape and grows again." "I wish it need not… — J.R.R. Tolkien Failure Copy Share Image