149 Quotes About Tolkien
- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.
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- Author J. R. R. Tolkien
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But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.
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Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!
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- Author Lev Grossman
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Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders…
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- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.
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- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise.
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¿A qué le teméis, Señora?-le preguntó Aragorn.-A una jaula. A vivir encerrada detrás de barrotes, hasta que la costumbre y la vejez acepten el cautiverio, y la posibilidad y aún el deseo de llevar a cabo grandes hazañas se hayan perdido para siempre.
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- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón.
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- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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That's done it! Now I've rung the front-door bell!
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