Quotes from JRR Tolkien

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.

Their plans were improved with the best advice.

Tolkien offers sympathy, surrender, friendship and, most of all, forgiveness.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren land; long heath, broth furze, any thing.

We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.