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

Courage is found in unlikely places,’ said Gildor. ‘Be of good hope!

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.? I should think so – in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan. – Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn.

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world’s end.

Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit – may the hair on his toes never fall out!

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation – This story begins and ends in joy.

Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall.

You cannot pass!

Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch.