Quotes from JRR Tolkien

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

Short cuts make long delays.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.