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

Their ‘magic’ is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

It’s a dangerous business, going out your door.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.

Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.

Now at this last we must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril – to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire.

There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn’t do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.

Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing!

My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.

He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said.