Not all those who wander are lost.
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.
The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
It is the job that is never started that takes the longest to finish.
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world.
All that is gold does not glitter.
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
It is in our deeds that we learn the weight of our hearts.
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.
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
The wise speak only of what they know.
Believe that there is only one melody for each song.
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
I would not give my name for my works to any one interested in it solely for profit.
J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes part 2
The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’.
I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size.
The most improper job of any man is bossing other men.
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality.
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
He felt that if once he went beyond the end of things he would never come back.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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 valor has gone beyond recall or desire.
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zâram.
Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places.
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.
I will take the Ring, he said, though I do not know the way.
There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.
I’m going to Mordor alone. Of course I am!
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.
The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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