Top 500 J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and a string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell. I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

352. “My Precious, my Precious.”

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353. “But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!”

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354. “Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.”

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355. “Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.”

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356. “But good luck to you – today and every day!”

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357. “I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament...”

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358. “There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

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359. “The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.”

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360. “For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.”

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361. “I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.”

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362. “But it is not for thy valour only that I send thee, but to bring into the world a hope beyond thy sight, and a light that shall pierce the darkness.”

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363. “The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall...”

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364. “Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me! Here am I, naughty little fly; you are fat and lazy. You cannot trap me, though you try, in your cobwebs crazy.”

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365. “Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said: Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!”

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366. “O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell.”

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367. “Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam’s mind.”

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368. “And if Sam considered himself lucky, Frodo knew he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care.”

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369. “And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.”

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370. “Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.”

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371. “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.”

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372. “I fear that in my eagerness to persuade you, I lost patience. And indeed I regret it.”

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373. “Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.”

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374. “And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.”

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375. “There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.”

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376. “Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.”

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377. “Hail the victorious dead!”

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378. “It was dark and dim all day. From the sunless dawn until evening the heavy shadow had deepened, and all hearts in the City were oppressed. Far above a great cloud streamed slowly westward from the Black Land, devouring light, borne upon a wind of war; but below the air was still and breathless, as if all the Vale of Anduin waited for the onset of a ruinous storm.”

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379. “I’m going on an adventure.”

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380. “Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.”

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381. “Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, ‘a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.’ Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

382. “What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.”

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383. “Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea.”

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384. “When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

385. “Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could, riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!”

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386. “For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed.”

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387. “Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.”

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388. “Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!”

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389. “Behold your Music! This is your minstrelsy; and each of you shall find contained herein, amid the design that I set before you, all those things which it may seem that he himself devised or added. And thou, Melkor, wilt discover all the secret thoughts of thy mind, and wilt perceive that they are but a part of the whole and tributary to its glory.”

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390. “Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.”

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391. “At last the time came for him to say good-bye to his friends. “Farewell, Balin!” he said; “and farewell, Dwalin; and farewell Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur! May your beards never grow thin!” And turning towards the Mountain he added: “Farewell Thorin Oakenshield! And Fili and Kili! May your memory never fade!”

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392. “Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!”

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393. “You are a very fine person, Mr Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!”

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394. “Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!”

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395. “It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.”

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396. “Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?”

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397. “This only was wanting. Now comes the night.”

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398. “Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”

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399. “Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man’s heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.”

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400. “In those days the Great Enemy, of whom Sauron of Mordor was but a servant, dwelt in Angband in the North, and the Elves of the West coming back to Middle-earth made war upon him to regain the Silmarils which he had stolen; and the fathers of Men aided the Elves.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien