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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters’. I have indeed written many. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
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. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Please don’t cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Don’t tell us about dreams ” dream dinners aren’t any good and we can’t share them. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man’s eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of tyranny and intolerance! (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
You can only come to the morning through the shadows (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Go back to the abyss! Fall into nothingness that awaits you and your master! (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end! (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
I may be a burglar... but I’m an honest one, I hope, more or less (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill (J R R Tolkien Quotes)