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

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

Onen i-Estel Edain, ú-chebin estel anim.'I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept no hope for myself.'

A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark lord, and something about the end of the world, but please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

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.

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.