J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!
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The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.
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And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
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Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.
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True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
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One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.
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I don't like allegories.
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Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.
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Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.
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True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .
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He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.