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

It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.

I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.

For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them.

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.