Quotes & Sayings About Trees Lord Of The Rings

The trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and don't do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so i am told. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves. — J.R.R. Tolkien

One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Elrond was in his chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the trees. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I am at home among trees. — J.R.R. Tolkien