Top 100 J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
#2. The ring! exclaimed Frodo. 'Has he left me that? I wonder why. Still, it may be useful.
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#3. Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.
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#4. I did not hinder it, for generous deed should not be checked by cold counsel. It
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#5. Then he called him Maeglin, which is Sharp Glance, for he perceived that the eyes of his son were more piercing than his own, and his thought could read the secrets of hearts beyond the mist of words.
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#6. Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.
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#7. It is dark for archery,' said Gimli. 'Indeed it is time for sleep. Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could. Riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!
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#8. Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended; it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him.
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#9. Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.
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#10. As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.
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#12. Put on a few eggs, there's a good fellow!" Gandalf called after him, as the hobbit stumped off to the pantries. "And just bring out the cold chicken and
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#13. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
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#15. You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.
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#17. Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. "There never was much hope," he answered. "Just a fool's hope, as I have been told.
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#18. Lilly-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass.
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#20. The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
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#21. When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept ... "Why did I ever wake up!" he cried.
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#23. This was an evil choice. Which way should he choose? And if both led to terror and death, what good lay in choice?
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#24. Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone,
We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door!
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#27. If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.
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#28. How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear ... It is a man's part to discern them, as much in th Golden Wood as in his own house.
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#29. In those days the Great Enemy, of whom Sauron of Mordor was but a servant, dwelt in Angband in the North, and the Elves of the West coming back to Middle-earth made war upon him to regain the Silmarils which he had stolen; and the fathers of Men aided the Elves.
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#31. 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.
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#32. So much death! What can med do against such reckless hate?
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#33. Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories
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#34. Victory after all, I suppose! ... Well, it seems a very gloomy business.
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#35. In many ways,' answered the wizard. 'It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. It would possess him.
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#36. And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!"
"Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?
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#37. And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.
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#38. Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole.
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#39. He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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#41. Then Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.
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#42. We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
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#43. You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.
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#45. If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.
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#46. He will have guessed, surely?' said Merry. 'Were they likely to end any other way?' 'Not likely,' answered Gandalf, 'though they came to the balance of a hair. But
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#49. But where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls. - Aragorn
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#50. And Aragorn the King Elessar wedded Arwen Undomiel in the City of the Kings upon the day of Midsummer, and the tale of their long waiting and labours was come to fulfillment.
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#51. But in the end it is only a passing thing ... this shadow. Even darkness must pass. - Samwise Gamgee, The Two Towers
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#52. I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler.
-Frodo Baggins
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#53. Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.
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#54. But Iluvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony
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#56. The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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#57. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.' 'Very
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#58. Aragon felt a shudder run through him at the sound, a strange cold thrill; and yet it was not fear or terror that he felt: rather it was like the sudden bite of a keen air, or the slap of a cold rain that wakes an uneasy sleeper.
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#59. There are many evil and unfriendly things in the world that have little love for those that go on two legs, and yet are not in league with Sauron, but have purposes of their own. Some have been in this world longer than he.
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#60. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking;
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#61. However it may prove, one must tread the path that need chooses!
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#62. Bilbo. "Ha!" thought he, warming to his new work as he lifted it carefully out, "this
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#63. The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.
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#64. It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
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#65. I have no signs on my door - it was painted a week ago - ,
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#66. A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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#67. But time does not stand still, though the Sun be lost.
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#68. Give to you; and if I have chosen my own time and way for handing it over, you can hardly blame me, considering the trouble I had to find you. Your father could not remember his own name when he gave me the paper, and he never told me yours; so on the whole I think I ought
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#69. I am a Christian and of course what I write will be from that essential viewpoint.
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#71. And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
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#73. Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you.
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#74. We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.
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#75. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. - Gandalf the Grey, The Return of the King
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#76. But I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed. Neither do I talk in vain.
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#77. I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.
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#78. Far over misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold.
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#80. In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
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#81. What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?
(Answer: a mountain)
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#82. it is a long tale." "Then you had better come inside and tell me some of it, if it won't take all day,
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#83. he says that the Men that have lately come over the Mountains are hardly better than Orcs.' 'That is true,' answered Sador; 'true at least of some of us. But the up-climbing is painful, and from high places it is easy to fall low.' At
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#84. Even the good plans of wise wizards like Gandalf and of good friends like Elrond go astray sometimes when you are off on dangerous adventures over the Edge of the Wild, and Gandalf was a wise enough wizard to know it.
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#86. if he had used all his power to guard Mordor, so that none could enter, and bent all his guile to the hunting of the Ring, then indeed hope would have faded: neither Ring nor bearer could long have eluded him. But
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#88. The back again carrying Bilbo, was grabbed from behind in the dark. He shouted
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#90. I am learning a lot about Sam Gamgee on this journey. First he was a conspirator, now he's a jester. He'll end up by becoming a wizard or a warrior! - Frodo Baggins
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#91. I don't think I know your name.'
'Yes, yes my dear sir and I do know your name Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don't remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me.
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#92. For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
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#93. Just why Mr. Frodo was selling his beautiful hole was even more debatable than the price.
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#94. If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.
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#95. He caught sight of Dwalin's green hood hanging up. He hung his red one next to it, and Balin at your service!
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#96. The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise.
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#97. But if all the fair folk take to the Havens, it will be a duller world for those who are doomed to stay.
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#98. We are sitting in a fortress. Outside it is getting dark.
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#99. Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!
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#100. There was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open, just as if he had been invited. "I see they have begun to arrive already," he said when he caught sight of
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