Quotes from JRR Tolkien
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
- JRR Tolkien
Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed.
- JRR Tolkien
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
- JRR Tolkien
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.
- JRR Tolkien
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
- JRR Tolkien
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
- JRR Tolkien
In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.
- JRR Tolkien
See your road through.
- JRR Tolkien
Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
- JRR Tolkien
Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
- JRR Tolkien
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.
- JRR Tolkien
What punishments of God are not gifts?
- JRR Tolkien