J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Age, Desire

• And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Fate, Loss

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Water, Age

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Age, Three

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ", www.imdb.com. 2002.

• And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Age, World

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Long Ago, Age

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Heart, Men

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1994). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, Thorndike Pr

• 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

  Song, Age, Stories

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.691, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel... Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Memories, Eye

• One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Thinking, Lakes

• There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Deep Water, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Rivers, Imagination

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

• At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Years, Age, Kind

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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