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Thought Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in…
- 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…
- 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…
- And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing…
- '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.'
- For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there…
- If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought,…
- If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said…
- 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…
- And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed,…
- But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not…
- Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and…
- So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it…
- There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty…
- I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case…
- Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie…
- 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…
- 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…
- Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.
- What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was…
- Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like…
- Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How…
- And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she…
- He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was…
- 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…
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