J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

I 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.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.