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We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know? (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don’t want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don’t want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug’s left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance! (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
I wish life was not so short,’ he thought. ‘Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.’ (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can. -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
A story must be told or there’ll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it’s just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
There isn’t no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire? (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
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. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
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. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
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. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
I don’t want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can’t escape is even worse. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time and place, universal truth and everlasting life. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)
Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions. (J R R Tolkien Quotes)