J. R. R. Tolkien on laughter
J. R. R. Tolkien96 quotes“Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!”
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien 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.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien All’s well that ends better.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien Don’t go where I can’t follow!
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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