894 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"“Thank goodness!” said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar.

Fare well we call to hearth and hallThough wind may blow and rain may fallWe must away ere break of dayOver the wood and mountain tallTo Rivendell where Elves yet dwellIn glades beneath the misty fellThrough moor and waste we ride in hasteAnd wither then we cannot tellWith foes ahead behind us dreadBeneath the sky shall be our bedUntil at last our toil be spedOur journey done, our errand spedWe must away! We must away!We ride before the break of day!

I love places that make you realise how tiny you and your problems are.

Nienor ran on into the woods until she was spent, and then fell, and slept, and awoke; and it was a sunlit morning, and she rejoiced in light as it were a new thing, and all things else that she saw seemed new and strange, for she had no names for them.

A čega se bojite, gospo?" upita je on."Kaveza" odgovori mu ona. "Da ću ostati iza rešetaka dok navike i godine neučine svoje, i dok ne izgubim zauvijek svaku priliku i volju da počinim velika djela.

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us

Go backwards? No good at all. Go sideways? Impossible! Go forwards? Only thing to do, on we go!

Gandalf could be seen, glimmering in the gloom; he seemed small, and altogether alone: grey and bent, like a wizened tree before the onset of a storm.