J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes

It`s a dangerous business going out your front door.

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

It`s a job that`s never started that takes the longest to finish.

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

`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.`

I don`t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

Little by little, one travels far.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

`What do you fear my lady?`

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

'Remember what Bilbo used to say: It`s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don`t keep your feet, there`s no knowing where you might be swept off to.'�