894 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!""Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.

Not all who wander are lost.(Not all who are lost, wander)

Each day before the end of eveshe sought her lover, nor would him leave,until the stars were dimmed, and daycame glimmering eastward silver-grey.Then trembling-veiled she would appear,and dance before him, half in fear;there flitting just before his feetshe gently chid with laughter sweet:'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me!For fain thy dancing I would see!

Faërie cannot be caught in a net of words; for it is one of its qualities to be indescribable, though not imperceptible.

Short cuts make long delays.