J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
Short cuts make long delays.
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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.
Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.
‘I wish life was not so short,’ he thought. ‘Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.’
Above all shadows rides the sun.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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.
