894 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror....

Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

The invetion of languages is the Foudation. The 'Stories were made rather to provide a world for the languages rather than the reverse