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J.R.R. TOLKIEN The way is shut.
Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the
story was already writ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind ther...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastr...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessin...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b...
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 evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family o...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pit...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN ...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN