"For so sworn good or evil an oath……" — J.R.R. Tolkien

"For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end."

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien has 756 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…

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