894 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

and all was healed and made good, and the houses were filled with men and women and the laughter of children, and no window was blind nor any courtyard empty;and after the ending of the Third Age of the world into the new age it preserved the memory and the glory of the years that were gone.

I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back.

You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

O slender as a willow-wand! O clearer than clear water!O reed by the living pool! Fair River-daughter!O spring-time and summer-time, and spring again after!O wind on the waterfall, and the leaves' laughter!

Lilly-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass.

Alive without breath;as cold as death;never thirsting, ever drinking;clad in mail, never clinking.Drowns on dry land, thinks an islandis a mountain;thinks a fountainis a puff of air.So sleek, so fair!What a joy to meet!We only wish to catch a fish,so juicy-sweet!

Grey as a mouse, Big as a house,Nose like a snake,I make the earth shake,As I tramp through the grass;Trees crack as I pass.With horns in my mouthI walk in the South,Flapping big ears.Beyond count of yearsI stump round and round,Never lie on the ground,Not even to die.Oliphaunt am I, Biggest of all,Huge, old, and tall.If ever you'd met meYou wouldn't forget me.If you never do,You won't think I'm true;But old Oliphaunt am I,And I never lie.

The cold hard landsthey bites our hands,they gnaws our feet.The rocks and stonesare like old bonesall bare of meat.But stream and poolis wet and cool:so nice for feet!And now we wish-

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.