894 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

This foe is beyond any of you...RUN!

Yes, I will — two eyes, as often as I can spare them.

Yes, the shadow of doom,' said Beregond. 'I fear that Minas Tirith shall fall. Night comes. The very warmth of my blood seems stolen away.

But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feeling as the slow gurgling stream slipped by: his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?