J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes

Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.

I am at home among trees.

J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.

If we was master, then we could help ourselves.

Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".

One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis

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

All that is gold does not glitter...

Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.

Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes.

Christian myth, reveals the truth that "the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind, " said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, "There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization, " "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.

A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men.

Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)—Gandalf came by.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself!

It's the deep breath before the plunge.

Yes, I am white now, ' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

Many are the strange chances of the world, ' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do no be too eager to deal out death in judgment.

Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home.

A light like the glint of water on dewy grass flashed from under her feet as she danced.

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

The ‘Elves’ are ‘immortal’, at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death.

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

All stories are ultimately about the fall.

But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.

Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.

I could not 'make' you--except by force, which would break your mind.

The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.

those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.

Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.

There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.