"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"“I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"But I will say this, the rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor, nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anythig else passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I am also a steward. Did you not know? "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have never used before or wanted."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again)

"He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

--Introduction to the Lord of the Rings"
— Peter S. Beagle (The Tolkien Reader)

"Under the Mountain dark and tall
The King has come unto his hall!
His foe is dead,
the Worm of Dread,
And ever so his foes shall fall.

The sword is sharp, the spear is long,
The arrow swift, the Gate is strong;
The heart is bold that looks on gold;
The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fells like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

-from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

""All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "


Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time..."
— J. R. R. Tolkien, Ephesians 5:15-16a

"Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)

""All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time...


"
— J. R. R. Tolkien, Ephesians 5:15-16a

"Bilbo’s Last Song

Day is ended, dim my eyes,
But journey long before me lies.
Farewell, friends! I hear the call.
The ship's beside the stony wall.
Foam is white and waves are grey;
Beyond the sunset leads my way.
Foam is salt, the wind is free;
I hear the rising of the Sea.

Farewell, friends! The sails are set,
The wind is east, the moorings fret.
Shadows long before me lie,
Beneath the ever-bending sky,
But islands lie behind the Sun
That I shall raise ere all is done;
Lands there are to west of West,
Where night is quiet and sleep is rest.

Guided by the Lonely Star,
Beyond the utmost harbour-bar,
I’ll find the heavens fair and free,
And beaches of the Starlit Sea.
Ship, my ship! I seek the West,
And fields and mountains ever blest.
Farewell to Middle-earth at last.
I see the Star above my mast!
"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (Bilbo's Last Song)

"As a lord was held
for the strength of his body and stoutness of heart.
Much lore he learned, and loved wisdom
but fortune followed him in few desires;
oft wrong and awry what he wrought turned;
what he loved he lost, what he longed for he won not;
and full friendship he found not easily,
nor was lightly loved for his looks were sad.
He was gloom-hearted, and glad seldom
for the sundering sorrow that filled his youth...
(On Turin Turambar - The Children of Hurin)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lays of Beleriand)

"fuck j.r.r. tolkien"
— d.Vandersloot

"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Of all the things that men may heed
'Tis most of love they sing indeed"
— Sir Orfeo

""All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time..."
— J. R. R. Tolkien, Ephesians 5: 15-16a