Top 49 Quotes About Life Tolkien

#1. Shhhhh, I am trying to read.

Anna Del C. Dye

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#2. Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#3. But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#4. All that is gold does not glitter...

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#5. The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#6. Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#7. It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#8. How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand ... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.. that have taken hold.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#9. But to this Orc-work such a life as we lead has brought us. Lawless and fruitless all our deeds have been, serving only ourselves, and feeding hate in our hearts.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#10. His old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#11. 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.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#12. True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#13. Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#14. I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Richard C. Armitage

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#15. Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament ... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#16. But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#17. But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#18. We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#19. I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#20. If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#21. True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#22. Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#23. Few can see wither their road will lead them, till they comes to it's end. - Gimli

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#24. It is written in my life-blood, such that it is, thick or thin; and I can no other.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#25. While there's life there's hope!' as my father used to say, and 'Third time pays for all.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#26. Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#27. 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.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#28. J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

Philip Zaleski

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#29. Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#30. I will not walk backward in life.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#31. I will not walk backwards in life.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#32. And he needed to be able to look at himself in the mirror without having to turn away - he couldn't bear to be less than he hoped he was. It was a virtue and a fault that he would carry with him all his life.

Simon Tolkien

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#33. If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#34. Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure
though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#35. Short cuts make long delays.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#36. If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#37. For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marvelling that they gave life so freely of which they had on earth so little.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#38. The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#39. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.' There

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#40. 'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

John Noble

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#41. true courage is not knowing when to take a life, but when to spare one"
~Gandalf

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#42. Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

N.D. Wilson

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#43. Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#44. I go now to my long rest in the timeless halls beyond the seas and the Mountains of Aman. It will be long ere I am seen among the Noldor again; and it may be that we shall not meet a second time in death or life, for the fates of our kindreds are apart. Farewell!

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#45. Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#46. In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#47. The King's grace is greater than you know, and the law is become less stern than aforetime; or else no choice would be given you but to abide here to your life's end.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#48. I would rather spend one life time with you than face all of the ages of this world alone

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#49. 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.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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