There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThere is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAll that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIENDo not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThere are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
J. R. R. TOLKIENBut in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
J. R. R. TOLKIENHow do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
J. R. R. TOLKIENYou can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThen something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
J. R. R. TOLKIENEven the smallest person can change the course of the future
J. R. R. TOLKIENI am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
J. R. R. TOLKIENIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI 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. TOLKIENSo comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
J. R. R. TOLKIENEnd? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN