1,027 Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

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.

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man’s heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.

Hail the victorious dead!

I don’t know, and I would rather not guess.

If you’re referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.

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.

That’s done it! Now I’ve rung the front-door bell!

Handsome is as handsome does.