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

! Elbereth Gilthoniel!silivren penna mírielo menel aglar elenath!We still remember, we who dwellIn this far land beneath the trees,Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

A star shone at the hour of our meeting.

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

Fealty with love, Valor with honor, oathbreaking with vengeance.

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

All that is gold does not glitter.