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

For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more – remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men’s hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.

You may not like my burglar, but please don’t damage him.

Rover did not know in the least where the moon’s path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer’s heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

To be a cult figure in one’s own lifetime is most unpleasant.

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.

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.

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

Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.