J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

While there’s life there’s hope!

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.

There are no safe paths in this part of the world.

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Not all those who wander are lost.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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!

Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it for ever!

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!