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#1

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

10526 likes

#2

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: faith

8705 likes

#3

“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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: hope, inspirational, love

8336 likes

#4

“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?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: humor, semantics, suspicion

4607 likes

#5

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: first-sentence, opening-lines

2248 likes

#6

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: fantasy

2026 likes

#7

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

tags: tolkien

1465 likes

#8

“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: lotr

1445 likes

#9

“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: cheerfulness, faith, faramir, optimism

1274 likes

#10

“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: bravery, courage

1134 likes

#11

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: war

1114 likes

#12

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

726 likes

#13

“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

662 likes

#14

“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

626 likes

#15

“All's well that ends better.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

534 likes

#16

“The road goes ever on and on”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

511 likes

#17

“There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

tags: beautiful, fighting, inspirational, lord-of-the-rings, samwise-gamgee, world

378 likes

#18

“No Victory Without Suffering”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

321 likes

#19

“Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: bilbo-baggins

312 likes

#20

“The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.”
― J R R Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: despair, hopelessness, worry

311 likes

#21

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

310 likes

#22

“It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.”
― J.R.R Tolkien

tags: bilbo, fellowship-of-the-ring, j-r-r-tolkien, the-lord-of-the-rings, the-shire

310 likes

#23

“False hopes are more dangerous than fears.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

303 likes

#24

“It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

284 likes

#25

“The wise speak only of what they know”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

282 likes

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