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

Grateful

“My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.”

War Soldier Superiors

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Novelist, Scholar

Courageous

“The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.”

War Home Lying

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Courageous

“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”

Knowing Spares

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Happy

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

Holes Middle Earth

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Melancholic

“To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?”

Horse Wind Rain

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Creative

“Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.”

Beautiful Doors Sky

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Determined

“I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.”

Desire Wells

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Spiritual

“I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.”

Way Fellowship

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Wise

“It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”

May False Hope Middle Earth

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Anxious

“I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.”

Want Waiting Battle

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Wise

“The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.”

Truth Is Cynicism

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Philosophical

“What does your heart tell you?”

Heart Doe

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