J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes:
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. Tolkien
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. Tolkien
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. Tolkien
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes:
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. Tolkien
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes:
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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 wants to know about.’
J. R. R. Tolkien
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien