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

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

Handsome is as handsome does

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

It is a dangerous business going out your front door.

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva!

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.