894 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

The road goes ever on and on

Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.

You cannot pass!

There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.