J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

  

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• Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Silence
  • Speak
  • Fair