John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford.

J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes

1. “Not all who wander are lost.”
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2. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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3. “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.”
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4. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
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5. “Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
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6. “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
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7. “No victory without suffering.”
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8. “Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words.”
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9. “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”
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10. “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”
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11. “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
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12. “From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”
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13. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
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14. “Above all shadows rides the sun.”
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15. “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
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16. “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.”
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17. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
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18. “The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.”
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19. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
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20. “It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.”
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21. “If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: ‘What is the purpose of life?’ is unaskable and unanswerable.”
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22. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
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23. “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
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24. “Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch.”
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25. “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.”
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26. “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
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27. “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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28. “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
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29. “Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!”
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30. “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.”
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31. “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”
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32. “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
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33. “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.”
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34. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
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35. “Never laugh at live dragons.”
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36. “What punishments of God are not gifts?”
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37. “I will not walk backward in life.”
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38. “Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”
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39. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ’and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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40. “No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”
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41. “I do not believe this darkness will endure.”
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42. “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
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43. “I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure.”
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44. “There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.”
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45. “Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade!”
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46. “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
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47. “The burned hand teaches best.”
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48. “Great heart will not be denied.”
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49. “All that is gold does not glitter.”
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50. “Little by little, one travels far.”
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51. “I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”
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52. “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
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53. “Short cuts make long delays.”
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54. “The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.”
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55. “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
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56. “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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57. “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
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58. “You aren’t nearly through this adventure yet.”
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59. “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
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60. “The road goes ever on and on.”
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61. “Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
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62. “Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!”
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63. “What does your heart tell you?”
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64. “And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
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65. “Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- – that and such hope as I bring.”
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66. “I wisely started with a map.”
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67. “Speak politely to an enraged dragon.”
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68. “For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”
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69. “Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”
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70. “And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring? passed out of all knowledge.”
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71. “For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.”
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72. “Though here at journey’s end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.”
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73. “His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”
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74. “It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.”
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75. “A story must be told or there’ll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.”
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76. “Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?”
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77. “He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.”
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78. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
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79. “Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces!”
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80. “A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.”
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81. “Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
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82. “The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation – This story begins and ends in joy.”
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83. “It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
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84. “It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.”
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85. “There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.”
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86. “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
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87. “I don’t want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can’t escape is even worse.”
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88. “All’s well that ends better.”
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89. “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
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90. “But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
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91. “Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.”
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92. “If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something.”
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93. “My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.”
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94. “Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
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95. “Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!”
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96. “Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.”
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97. “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
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98. “It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.”
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99. “True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”
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100. “The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.”
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101. “It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.”
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102. “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
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103. “The wise speak only of what they know.”
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104. “Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.”
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105. “I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.”
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106. “Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.”
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107. “If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.”
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108. “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
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109. “Don’t go where I can’t follow!”
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110. “How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”
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111. “I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.”
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112. “Third time pays for all.”
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113. “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”
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114. “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.”
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115. “The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.”
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116. “If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.”
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117. “But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?”
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118. “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. “After all this time?” “Always,” said Snape.”
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119. “Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.”
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120. “Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall.”
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121. “Aure entuluva! day shall come again!”
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122. “And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.”
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123. “Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them.”
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124. “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
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125. “We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”
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126. “Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”
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127. “Handsome is as handsome does.”
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128. “Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
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129. “It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.”
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130. “All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”
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131. “Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What’s happened to the world?”
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132. “The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.”
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133. “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.”
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134. “If you’re going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you’ll never make a map of it afterwards.”
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135. “For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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136. “A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.”
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137. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,’ said Gimli. ‘Maybe,’ said Elrond, ‘but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.’ ‘Yet sworn word may strengthen quaking heart,’ said Gimli. ‘Or break it,’ said Elrond.”
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138. “I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”
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139. “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?”
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140. “I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.”
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141. “All that glitters is not gold.”
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142. “Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.”
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143. “Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.”
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144. “To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?”
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145. “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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146. “It’s a dangerous business, going out your door.”
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147. “Where will wants not, a way opens.”
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148. “Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”
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149. “In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.”
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150. “He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said.”
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151. “Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.”
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152. “Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.”
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153. “You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
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154. “Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them.”
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155. “It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.”
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156. “I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.”
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157. “The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy’s most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death.”
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158. “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”
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159. “I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.”
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160. “Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun.”
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161. “Mind your P’s and Q’s.”
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162. “Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.”
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163. “Do not spoil the wonder with haste!”
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164. “I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.”
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165. “See your road through.”
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166. “The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.”
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167. “For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.”
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168. “So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter’s chill.”
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169. “The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.”
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170. “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
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171. “Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.”
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172. “The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”
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173. “There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”
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174. “But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
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175. “Time doesn’t seem to pass here: it just is.”
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176. “Frodo: Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone. Sam: Of course you are, and I’m coming with you!”
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177. “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
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178. “For nothing is evil in the beginning.”
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179. “Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.”
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180. “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
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181. “The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.”
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182. “I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”
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183. “A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”
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184. “Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
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185. “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
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186. “I don’t know, and I would rather not guess.”
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187. “And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.”
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188. “Where did you go to, if I may ask?? said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,? said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?? Looking behind,? said he.”
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189. “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.”
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190. “Often does hatred hurt itself.”
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191. “You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.”
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192. “You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.”
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193. “He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.”
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194. “He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.”
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195. “We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.”
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196. “I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien

197. “May the hair on your toes never fall out!”
— J. R. R. Tolkien

198. “Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!”
— J. R. R. Tolkien

199. “I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien

200. “The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien