894 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

She shone like a window of glass upon a far hill in the westering sun, or as a remote lake seen from a mountain: a crystal fallen in the lap of the land.

Darkness must pass; a new day will come, and when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.

You have chosen the Evening; but my love is given to the Morning.

Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy.

The Eagles are coming! The Eagles are coming!

Many that live deserve death. And some deserve life

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

Unmasking the intentions of a Satanic character: He cannot be both counselor and tyrant.

We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.