J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.
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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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The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
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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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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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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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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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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Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.
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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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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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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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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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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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I don't like allegories.
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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.
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The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
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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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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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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.