“Why couldn’t he stop talking and let them drink his health?” — J.R.R. Tolkien Health Copy Share Image
“I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Gold Copy Share Image
“Hope rather that in the end even the least of your desires shall have fruit.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Desire Copy Share Image
“Above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Light Copy Share Image
“the back again carrying Bilbo, was grabbed from behind in the dark. He shouted” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Food Copy Share Image
“Victory after all, I suppose!…Well, it seems a very gloomy business.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Gloomy Copy Share Image
“There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men bad enough for such treachery.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Hige sceal pe heardra, heorte pe cenre, mod sceal pe mare pe ure maegen lytlao. ( Will shall be the sterner, heart… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Maedhros did deeds of surpassing valour, and the Orcs fled before his face; for since his torment upon Thangorodrim his spirit burned… — J.R.R. Tolkien Courage Copy Share Image
“He called it the Carrock, because carrock is his word for it. He calls things like that carrocks, and this one is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Language Copy Share Image
“But I spoke hastily. We must not be hasty. I have become too hot. I must cool myself and think; for it… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But the eyes that he liked the least were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes. “Insect eyes,” he thought, “not animal eyes,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But Felagund was slain in the dungeons of Thû the Necromancer, later Sauron; and Orodreth, the second son of Finarfin, took the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“It is grim reading’, he said. ‘I fear their end was cruel. Listen! We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Catholic Copy Share Image
“At last the time came for him to say good-bye to his friends. “Farewell, Balin!” he said; “and farewell, Dwalin; and farewell… — J.R.R. Tolkien Time Copy Share Image
“A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his… — J.R.R. Tolkien Character Copy Share Image
“The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Atomic bomb Copy Share Image
“Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars were dimmed, and day… — J.R.R. Tolkien Dance Copy Share Image
“It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men and he did not like it much. He was glad… — J.R.R. Tolkien War Copy Share Image
“As for the Hobbits of the Shire, with whom these tales are concerned, in the days of their peace and prosperity they… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbits Copy Share Image
