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

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.

Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful.

Thorin spoke: "Let us try the door! he said. "I must feel the wind on my face soon or die.

those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.

There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. You may (possibly) all live to thank me yet.

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

Where was I? O yes- I was not grabbed. I killed a goblin or two with a flash-""Good!" growled Beorn. "It is some good being a wizard, then.

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