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Such Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 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…
- 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…
- You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
- "We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like…
- The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work…
- 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 wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see…
- Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have…
- It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too…
- Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
- But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I…
- It is written in my life-blood, such that it is, thick or thin; and I can no other.
- Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible…
- In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him…
- Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of…
- Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super…
- There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark:…
- Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one…
- And if Sam considered himself lucky, Frodo knew he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked…
- 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…
- Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find…
- How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you…
- Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do…
- Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There…
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