Quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien

All shall love me and despair.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

Where will wants not, a way opens.

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

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!

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

Little by little, one travels far

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land, no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware!

Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" "But no living man am I!

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).