J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
Not all those who wander are lost.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
Little by little, one travels far.
I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?
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.
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.
The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world.
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world.
There is some good in this world, and its worth fighting for.
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Its a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you dont keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Not all those who wander are lost.
I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.
The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world.
There is some good in this world, and its worth fighting for.
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Its a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you dont keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Not all those who wander are lost.
I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.
The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.