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Should Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so…
- I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the…
- I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as…
- I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that…
- I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so…
- A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to…
- Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.
- To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!
- I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what…
- I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic…
- Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I…
- You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark,…
- There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only…
- And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years,…
- Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And…
- It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And…
- 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…
- Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days…
- Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the…
- I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull…
- All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried…
- We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the…
- And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.
- I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull…
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