"No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling……" — J.R.R. Tolkien

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting… - J.R.R. Tolkien

"No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it."

— 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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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with… — Mario Batali
Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've… — Jo Brand
Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. — Steven Brust
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon… — Madeleine Albright
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's… — Tori Amos
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot… — Audre Lorde
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and… — A. Whitney Brown
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40… — Don Bluth
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon. — Steven Pressfield

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