Quotes by : J.R.R. Tolkien

Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful.

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you....

Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard....

Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could....

Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is no....

A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.

True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.

Fly, you fools!' he cried, and was gone.

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted,....

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart....