J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Adventure

Quotes about: Adventure

• The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
  Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
  The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
  The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Adventure, Hands

• It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Dragons, Ifs

• I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Share, Difficult

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Thinking, Use

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Stories, Ends

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Sunshine, Ponies

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Future, Adventure

• Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Want

  1955 Gollum.The Two Towers, ch.1.

• 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

  Morning, Sorry, Adventure

• Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? 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!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Hands, Luck

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Stories, Unexpected

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Use, Nasty

  "The Hobbit". 75th Anniversary Edition,

• his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Dark, Mist

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Dragons, Laughing

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I'm going on an adventure!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Going On An Adventure

  "Fictional character: Bilbo Baggins". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", 2013.

• We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Dinner, Late

  "The Hobbit".

• The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, People, Mind

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Water, Trying

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Movie Love, Share

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", www.imdb.com. 2012.

• Adventures make one late for supper.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Late, Supper

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