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

Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?'

The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Then let us start as soon as it is light tomorrow, if we can. The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.

Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

That is Shadowfax. He is cheif of the Maeras, lords of all horses, and not even Theoden, King of Rohan, has ever looked on a better. Does he not shine like silver, and run as smoothly as a swift stream?

There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.

It needs more to make a king than a piece of elvish glass, or a rabble such as this.