Quotes from JRR Tolkien
A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.
- JRR Tolkien
There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
- JRR Tolkien
Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.
- JRR Tolkien
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.
- JRR Tolkien
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
- JRR Tolkien
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
- JRR Tolkien
His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.
- JRR Tolkien
It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
- JRR Tolkien
If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.
- JRR Tolkien
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
- JRR Tolkien
Not all that have fallen are vanquished.
- JRR Tolkien
True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
- JRR Tolkien