J. R. R. Tolkien quotes
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
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I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
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War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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Little by little, one travels far.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
