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

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It’s ours, it is, and we wants it.

I fear that in my eagerness to persuade you, I lost patience. And indeed I regret it.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say.

You let them out again, Old Man Willow!’ he said. ‘What be you a-thinking of? You should not be waking. Eat earth! Dig deep! Drink water! Go to sleep! Bombadil is talking!

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What’s happened to the world?

I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

Then he missed the cup! Thieves! Fire! Murder! Such a thing had not happened since first he came to the Mountain! His rage passes description – the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?