Top 500 J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

252. “Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over wood and mountain tall.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

253. “We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

254. “For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world’s end.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

255. “And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

256. “He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

257. “Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

258. “Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

259. “History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

260. “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

261. “It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

262. “Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

263. “Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

264. “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

265. “I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

266. “It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

268. “We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved – but not for me.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

269. “I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know. But all the while I sit and think of times there were before, I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

270. “We must do without hope.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

271. “Not all that have fallen are vanquished.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

272. “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!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

273. “Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

274. “For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

275. “When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

276. “Don’t leave me here alone! It’s your Sam calling. Don’t go where I can’t follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

278. “Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

279. “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!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

280. “The sky was clear and the stars were growing bright. ‘It’s going to be a fine night,’ he said aloud. ‘That’s good for a beginning. I feel like walking.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

281. “Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

282. “Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

283. “This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

284. “To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

285. “We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

286. “His rage passes description – the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

287. “And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

288. “But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

289. “The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

290. “Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

291. “Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

292. “But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

293. “Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

294. “The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

295. “But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

296. “The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

297. “The misty morning crawleth grey from dusk to the reluctant day.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

298. “Snow’s all right on a fine morning, but I like to be in bed when it’s falling.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

299. “Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

300. “For it is said in old lore, ‘The hands of the king are the hands of a healer.’ And so the rightful king could ever be known.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien