Tolkien Lotr Quotes & Sayings

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death ...
... (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien

Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you can't own it. You can spend it, but you can't keep it. And once you've lost it, there is no getting it back. It's just gone. — Allison DuBois

Not all that have fallen are vanquished. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler.
-Frodo Baggins — J.R.R. Tolkien

The memory of his voice made her feel warm and happy, though she could not explain why — Anamika Mishra

And Gandalf said: This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart. — J.R.R. Tolkien

How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand ... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The Oblivion Seekers, a collection one critic has described as "one of the strangest human documents that a woman has given to the world. — Maggie Nelson

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts. — John Muir

The world was fair, the mountains tall
In Elder Days before the fall ... — J.R.R. Tolkien

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more. — John Green

I wish Merry was here," he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as he watched the enemy come charging to the assault. "Well, well, now at any rate I understand poor Denethor a little better. We might die together, Merry and I, and since die we must, why not? Well, as he is not here, I hope he'll find an easier end. But now I must do my best. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate. — Jacques Barzun

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet and good tilled earth. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware. — Ally Condie

But good luck to you - today and every day! — J.R.R. Tolkien

You can only come to the morning through the shadows. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood. — J.R.R. Tolkien

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AND REFLECTION 1. How would you describe your own attitude toward cities? Indifferent? Hostile? Romanticized? Positive? In what way has this chapter challenged your attitude toward cities? not be drawn to such masses of humanity if we care about the same things that God cares about? What are some of the reasons that people avoid ministry in the city? What are some of the reasons that they are attracted to urban ministry? 2. Cities are places of safety, diversity, and productivity. How do each one of these characteristics uniquely define urban culture? 4. How can you and the community of believers to which — Timothy Keller

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It is less easy to find people in the woods and fields.And if you are supposed to be on the road,there is some chance that you will be looked for on the road and not off it.
-Frodo Baggins — J.R.R. Tolkien

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances. — Gabriel Basso

Farewell!' he said to Gandalf. 'I go to find the Sun! — J.R.R. Tolkien

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. — Thomas S. Monson

To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence. — E.F. Schumacher

All your long years we have been friends. Trust me as you once did, let it go — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day? — J.R.R. Tolkien

Heaven is not a republic. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine. — Rob Ford

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but 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. — J.R.R. Tolkien

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way. — Erik Larson

Home is now behind you, the world is ahead! — J.R.R. Tolkien

You have chosen the Evening; but my love is given to the Morning. — J.R.R. Tolkien

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me. — J.R.R. Tolkien