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Best Long Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in…
- Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over…
- grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read,…
- My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell…
- One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface…
- The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if…
- he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private…
- Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under…
- You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth…
- If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something
- And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of…
- Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!
- Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the…
- Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had…
- I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull…
- At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now…
- I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend…
- We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human,…
- He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He…
- I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I…
- Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on…
- Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The…
- Short cuts make for long delays.
- Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To claim our long-forgotten gold.
- Goblets they carved there for themselves And harps of gold; where no man delves There lay they long, and many a song Was sung unheard…
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