Best J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
- I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at. Dreading
- Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you. Bad
- Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to… Afraid
- There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think.… Belonged
- Great heart will not be denied. Denied
- Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the… Action
- Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say,… Admit
- Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory Escapist
- Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow. Dream
- I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds. Been
- For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with. Been
- The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course wrong… Always Goes
- What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he… Abortive
- Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that… All
- We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat… Ago
- If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards. Afterwards
- I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself. Funny
- Above all shadows rides the sun. All
- Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the… Come Untrue
- American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge. American
- I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone. Adventure
- Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them. Anything New
- Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates. Baggins
- Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land… Affect
- There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been… Been
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