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

Time doesn’t seem to pass here: it just is.

All that glitters is not gold.

I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size.

I don’t want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can’t escape is even worse.

Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give that to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something.

Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur’s Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand.

True education is a kind of never ending story – a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

All’s well that ends better.