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

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

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them

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?

Adventures only make you late for dinner.

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

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.