Quotes from JRR Tolkien
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
- JRR Tolkien
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
- JRR Tolkien
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
- JRR Tolkien
For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.
- JRR Tolkien
You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
- JRR Tolkien
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
- JRR Tolkien
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
- JRR Tolkien
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
- JRR Tolkien
The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
- JRR Tolkien
For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.
- JRR Tolkien
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
- JRR Tolkien
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.
- JRR Tolkien