J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Novelist, Scholar

Hopeful

“I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.”

Giving Spring Tree

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Novelist, Scholar

Philosophical

“The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.”

Stars Sea Fairy Stories

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Creative

“Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.”

Art Humans Magic

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Love

“It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.”

Heart Giving

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Adventurous

“I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.”

Adventure Share

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Courageous

“It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.”

Real Waiting Tunnels

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Thoughtful

“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.”

Real Long Kings

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Philosophical

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

Men Home Wall

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Happy

“Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?”

Book Together Down And

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Confident

“That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.”

Party Together Sticks

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Spiritual

“We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.”

Use Adventure Nasty

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Inspired

“It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.”

Kind Wine Bottles

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