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

The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.

Don’t tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren’t any good and we can’t share them.

Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!

I would have followed you. My brother. My captain. My king.

Hobbits give presents to other people on their own birthdays. Not very expensive ones, as a rule, and not so lavishly as on this occasion; but it was not a bad system.

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- – that and such hope as I bring.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.

His rage passes description – the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum – as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.