149 Quotes About Tolkien

Though thereafter we may walk in the shadows, I will not go forth as a thief in the night.

I am he that walks unseen.

[I] lay back and continued reading 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I had read only two years before but had already completely forgotten. I couldn't get enough of the battle between light and darkness, good and evil. And when the little man not only resisted the superior powers but also showed himself to be the greatest hero of them all, there were tears in my eyes. Oh how good it was.

„Mi-ar plăcea să salvez ținutul ăsta, dacă-mi stă în putință - chiar dacă au fost vremuri când i-am socotit pe locuitorii lui mai nătângi și mai grei de cap decât o pot spune vorbele, și când mă bătea gândul că un cutremur sau o năvală a dragonilor le-ar prinde bine.

Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.

Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick"-Pippin Took

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.

Tolkien’s words and sentences seemed like natural things, like rock formations or waterfalls, and wanting to write like Tolkien would have been, for me, like wanting to blossom like a cherry tree or climb a tree like a squirrel or rain like a thunderstorm.” — Gaiman on J. R. R. Tolkien

I totally geeked when I discovered (while in college) that Tolkien had a published version of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', so that's my favorite version. I think I have 3 or 4 copies on my bookshelf