The hobbit Quote by JRR Tolkien

Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted…

— Anonymous

“Tolkien’s Dwarves were stout, taciturn, vaguely magical characters who spent a lot of time in the dark hammering out beautiful things, e.g. Rings of…

— Neal Stephenson

“Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the pale enchanted…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.

— Reginald Heber

“When evening in the Shire was grey his footsteps on the Hill were heard; before the dawn he went away on journey long without…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears,…

— Charlaine Harris

“Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and…

— William Shakespeare

“At first the beauty of the melodies and of the interwoven words in elven-tongues, even though he understood them little, held him in a…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Icewind Dale. Windswept passes and forbidding glaciers stand at the top of the world. Below them, in the cold valley, an evil force broods:…

— R.A. Salvatore

Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

— Joaquin Miller

“Day came, and the fallow sun blinked over the lifeless ridges of Ered Lithui. Then suddenly the cry of brazen-throated trumpets was heard: from…

— J.R.R. Tolkien