Quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!

And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.

Third time pays for all

There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.

Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!

There is a place called 'heaven' where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

All that is gold does not glitter.

Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.