“ Master Meriadoc,’ said Aragorn, ‘if you think that I have passed through the mountains and the realm of Gondor with fire and sword to bring herbs to a careless soldier who throws away his gear, you ar… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. But such falls and betrayals, alas, have happened before. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and sta… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.’ ‘What do you fear, lady?’ he asked. ‘A cage,’ she said. ‘To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ I am in too great doubt to rule. To prepare or to let be? To prepare for war, which is yet only guessed: train craftsmen and tillers in the midst of peace for bloodspilling and battle: put iron in the… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ His poem is like a play in a room through the windows of which a distant view can be seen over a large part of the English traditions about the world of their original home. (Tolkien on the author of… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts! J.R.R. Tolkien
“ He liked visitors, but he liked to know them before they arrived, and he preferred to ask them himself. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Gandalf for certain this time, he thought as he puffed along the passage. But it was not. It was two more dwarves, both with blue hoods, silver belts, and yellow beards; and each of them carried a bag… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Frodo drew the Ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and smooth, without mark or device that he could see. The gold looked very fair and pure, and Frodo thought how rich… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ For still there are so many thingsthat I have never seen:in every wood in every springthere is a different green. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Fantasy can, of course, be carried to excess. It can be ill done. It can be put to evil uses. It may even delude the minds out of which it came. But of what human thing in this fallen world is that no… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,'said Gimli.'Maybe,'said Elrond,'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Do I not say truly, Gandalf,' said Aragorn at last, 'that you could go whithersoever you wished quicker than I? And this I also say: you are our captain and our banner. The Dark Lord has Nine. But we… J.R.R. Tolkien
