“even the most respectable, is wakened by gold and by jewels,” — J.R.R. Tolkien Gold Copy Share Image
“Lilly-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Flower Copy Share Image
“This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In Minas Tirith they endure the East Wind, but they do not ask it for tidings.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvelous and yet not strange.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Happiness Copy Share Image
“If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my… — J.R.R. Tolkien Inspiring Copy Share Image
“The names of the dwarves in The Hobbit were taken from verses of a very ancient Norse poem called Voluspà.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit Copy Share Image
“But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Friend Copy Share Image
“Through darkness you have come to your hope, and have now all your desire. Use well the days.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Darkness Copy Share Image
“You will meet many foes, some open, and some disguised; and you may find friends upon your way when you least look… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“None and none! What I have left behind I count now no loss; needless baggage on the road it has proved. Let… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so. I fear to take the Ring to hide it. I… — J.R.R. Tolkien Evil Copy Share Image
“Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above… — J.R.R. Tolkien Children Copy Share Image
“But he desired rather to subdue to his will both Elves and Men, envying the gifts with which Ilúvatar promised to endow… — J.R.R. Tolkien Elves Copy Share Image
“Let us enter! For it is only in the coming of Aragorn that any hope remains for the sick that lie in… — J.R.R. Tolkien Hope Copy Share Image
“I am sorry: sorry you have come in for this burden: sorry about everything. Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose… — J.R.R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
“There were many paths that led up into those mountains, and many passes over them. But most of the paths were cheats… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Poor Mr. Baggins—it was a weary long time that he lived in that place all alone, and always in hiding, never daring… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. ‘For one thing it would take a long while:… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Maedhros laughed saying: 'A king is he that can hold his own or else his title is vain. Thingol does but grant… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But Ilúvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not… — J.R.R. Tolkien Peace Copy Share Image
“Fair lady!' said Frodo again after a while. 'Tell me, if my asking does not seem foolish, who is Tom Bombadil?' 'He… — j.r.r. tolkien Frodo baggins Copy Share Image
“In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But Saruman had slowly shaped it to his shifting purposes, and made it better, as he thought, being deceived – for all… — J.R.R. Tolkien 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 Hobbit Copy Share Image
“When my father was a young man, during the years of the First World War and long before there was any inkling… — J.R.R. Tolkien Books Copy Share Image
“I hear nothing but the night-speech of plant and stone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Gardening Copy Share Image
