Magic Tolkien Quotes

#1. Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. 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.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.

Amity Shlaes

#5. The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you're just a wee dragon lad.

Sully Tarnish

#6. A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.

John Ralston Saul

#7. Knowing the truth about the vanishing did not lessen their opinion of Bilbo at all; for they saw that he had some wits, as well as luck and a magic ring - and all three are very useful possessions.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Or else I'm dead, and I've ended up in hell after all, and it's an escape pod with Lilac LaRoux.

Amie Kaufman

#9. The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.

Sully Tarnish

#11. His magic ring he kept a great secret, for he chiefly used it when unpleasant callers came.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. The forests avenge themselves.

Henrik Ibsen

#13. It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"Well, doesn't it perhaps mean that the magic word that opens the door is 'allegiance'?" Said Jack. "In Elvish?"
"That's a stupid idea," said John. "Then anyone who spoke Elvish could get in.

James A. Owen

#14. Celtic 'is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come ... Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. I am alone with the masses.

Mao Zedong

#16. Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

Alphonsus Liguori