Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

Courage is found in unlikely places

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

Let them come, there is one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

May your shadow never grow less, or stealing would be too easy.

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

Songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered and untimely.

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.

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.

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.

Never laugh at live dragons.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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.

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.

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?

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.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was b

It is not the end. It is the beginning of the end.

One ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.

Not all those who wander are lost.

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