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

But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.

The wise speak only of what they know.

The road goes ever on and on.

The fate of Men after death, maybe, is not in the hands of the Valar, nor was all foretold in the Music of the Ainur.

Do you remember when we first met? I thought I had wandered into a dream.

I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell.

We don’t want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.