J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Novelist, Scholar

Wise

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

Uplifting Tales Garments

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Novelist, Scholar

Spiritual

“A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.”

Heart Light Understanding

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Determined

“Short cuts make long delays.”

Long Cutting Delay

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Calm

“Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them.”

Needs Gimli

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Hopeful

“We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.”

Turns Storm

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Melancholic

“I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.”

Long Christian Faith

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Philosophical

“You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.”

Evil Waiting Fate

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Grieving

“Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!”

Taken Son Saying Goodbye

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Happy

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

Mean Dirty Smell

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Philosophical

“Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.”

Inspirational Life Wise

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Happy

“Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.”

Home Done Lucky

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Creative

“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.”

Light Powerful Rocks

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