J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

771 quotes · Novelist, Scholar

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J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Novelist, Scholar

Creative

“It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.”

Writing Giving Names

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Novelist, Scholar

Sad

“Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.”

Mother Brother Twelve

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Philosophical

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory”

Glory Fantasy Stories Escapists

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Funny

“out of the frying pan and into the fire”

Fire Frying Pans

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Angry

“Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.”

Fall Masters

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Novelist, Scholar

“Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.”

Alive Drinking Mail

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Courageous

“But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.”

Fall Dark Son

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Funny

“If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.”

Doors Uncles Dragons

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Hopeful

“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”

Heart Winter Sun

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Hopeful

“Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!”

Heart Dark Wrath

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Adventurous

“The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say”

Doors Feet Poetry

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Grieving

“Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by”

Lying Rain Drinking

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