Top 500 J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

352. “Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

354. “Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

355. “And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

356. “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!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

357. “Many are the strange chances of the world,? said Mithrandir, ’and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

359. “We don’t want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

360. “Hail the victorious dead!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

362. “He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

363. “If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

364. “You cannot pass!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

365. “Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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366. “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.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

367. “Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

369. “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

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

371. “He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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372. “I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

373. “This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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374. “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.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

375. “My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

376. “And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

377. “We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

378. “No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

379. “Now at this last we must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril – to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

380. “For of us is required a blind trust, and a hope without assurance, knowing not what lies before us in a little while.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

381. “And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan. – Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

382. “Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give that to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

383. “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!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

384. “Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

385. “Thus came Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, Isildur’s heir, out of the Paths of the Dead, borne upon a wind from the sea to the kingdom of Gondor.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

387. “Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

390. “A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

391. “Don’t tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren’t any good and we can’t share them.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

392. “Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

393. “I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

394. “I am Goldberry, daughter of the River.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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396. “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.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

397. “Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

398. “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.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

399. “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.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien