“ Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling!Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling.Down along under the Hill, shining in the sunlight,Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight,Ther… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ He is the Master of wood, water, and hill.’ ‘Then all this strange land belongs to him?’ ‘No indeed!’ she answered, and her smile faded. ‘That would indeed be a burden,’ she added in a low voice, as i… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ He had many hardships and adventures before he got back. The Wild was still the Wild, and there were many other things in it in those days beside goblins; but he was well guided and well guarded—the w… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. There never was much hope, he answered. Just a fool's hope, as I have been told. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ 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
“ For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted fro… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ As you go down the water,’ he said, ‘you will find that the trees will fail, and you will come to a barren country. There the River flows in stony vales amid high moors, until at last after many leagu… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ An honest hand and a true heart may hew amiss; and the harm may be harder to bear than the work of a foe. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Roads go ever ever onUnder cloud and under starYet feet that wandering have goneTurn at last to home afar.Eyes that fire and sword have seenAnd horror in the halls of stoneLook at last on meadows gree… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim.(I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.)(Gilraen's linnod) J.R.R. Tolkien
“ The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened, J.R.R. Tolkien
“ But I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Númenor; and I would ha… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Yes, that's so,' said Sam. 'And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: a… J.R.R. Tolkien
