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J.R.R. Tolkien QUOTES

1 " The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

2 " I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door "

― J.R.R. Tolkien

3 " Roads Go Ever On

Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.

Roads go ever ever on,
Under cloud and under star.
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen,
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green,
And trees and hills they long have known.

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

The Road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone.
Let others follow, if they can!
Let them a journey new begin.
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Lord of the Rings

4 " Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

5 " Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.J. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien

6 " End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

7 " 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 was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

8 " The treacherous are ever distrustful. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

9 " There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. 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 was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

10 " Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off). "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien QUOTES

11 " It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

12 " Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Hobbit

13 " I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

14 " Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! "

― J.R.R. Tolkien

15 " We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien

16 " Fair speech may hide a foul heart. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

17 " After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

18 " To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face "

― J.R.R. Tolkien

19 " We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

20 " I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it...And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God's very attention itself, personalized...This is a finite parallel to the Infinite. As the love of the Father and Son (who are infinite and equal) is a Person, so the love and attention of the Light to the Mote is a person (that is both with us and in Heaven): finite but divine, i.e. angelic. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien