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

But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.

For Fëanor began to love the Silmarils with a greedy love, and grudged the sight of them to all save his father and his seven sons; he seldom remembered now that the light within them was not his own

Though thereafter we may walk in the shadows, I will not go forth as a thief in the night.

If you're going to have a complicated story,' he once explained, 'you must work to a map; otherwisw you'll never make a of it afterwards'.

I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. -Frodo Baggins

The night was railing againstthe morning of which it was bereaved, and the cold was cursing the warmth forwhich it hungered.

... But if all the fair folk take to the Havens, it will be a duller world for those who are doomed to stay.

Then Bilbo remembered his ring! "Well I'm blessed!" said he. "This invisibility has its drawbacks after all. Otherwise I suppose I might have spent a warm and comfortable night in bed!

My gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits, May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.