J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Family, Party, Book

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Earth Day, World

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

• Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Powerful, Book, Writing

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!' said Bilbo. 'Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Dark, Together

  "The Lord of the Rings: One Volume".

• I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Beer, Done

  1954 The Fellowship of the Ring, foreword.

• I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Book, Beer

  "The Lost Road and Other Writings". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Chapter: "Alboin Errol", 1987.

• Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Book, Mean

• Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Real, Believe, Book

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Together, Down And

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Squares, Contradiction

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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