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Thinking Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a…
- 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.…
- Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when…
- I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do…
- I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves…
- Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think!…
- 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…
- Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant…
- 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…
- If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow…
- 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…
- He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think.…
- 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:…
- And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to…
- I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I…
- Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass…
- His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He…
- Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright…
- 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…
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