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

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.