J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Novelist, Scholar

Courageous

“Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!”

Dark Horse Deeds

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Novelist, Scholar

Courageous

“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.”

Heart Bones Frodo

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Funny

“A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.”

Mines Shorthand

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Angry

“Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).”

Sight Dwarves

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Curious

“Faithful heart may have froward tongue.”

Heart May

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Happy

“Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness.”

Children Eye Night

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Creative

“The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!”

Running Light Swimming

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Creative

“Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.”

Secret Wonder Tables

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Nostalgic

“I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.”

Simple Garden Mushrooms

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Angry

“It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.”

War Needs Foe

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Wise

“My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”

Real Long Names

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Melancholic

“Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?”

Spring Horse Rain

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