J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes

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• Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
• Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
• He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a…
• Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more…
• Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in…
• Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
• The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to…
• The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There…
• One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of…
• Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
• The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely…
• All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
• No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
• The burned hand teaches best.
• Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on…
• Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.
• I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
• If we all got angry together something might be done.
• The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is…

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