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J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

J. R. R. Tolkien quotes

English Novelist, Writer, Poet January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973

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Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of the trees, I think. I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless... J. R. R. Tolkien
But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?" (Aragorn about Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing) J. R. R. Tolkien
Therefore he willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else; and of their operation everything should be, in form and deed, completed, and the world fulfilled unto the last and smallest. J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of..."
But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will. 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. J. R. R. Tolkien
Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time. J. R. R. Tolkien
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter. J. R. R. Tolkien
Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself. J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life."
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in..."
...his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles."
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles. J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but..."
True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one. J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "I will not walk backward in life."
I will not walk backward in life. J. R. R. Tolkien
I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate. . . If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J. R. R. Tolkien
Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.'It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned,' said Gimli. I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves,' said Legolas. I have heard both,' said Gandalf[.] J. R. R. Tolkien

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