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

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.

He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

We are a plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures.

Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

The wise speak only of what they know