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

Little by little, one travels far

I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.

Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.

May the hair on your toes never fall out!

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.