J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

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

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wine, Men, Moon

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.322, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Blessed, Catholic, Earth

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Sorrow, Foundation

• The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Air, Smell, Water

• It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Years, Weather, Evil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.861, 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.

• It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Children, Ocean, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Sea, Names

• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Blessed, Romance

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Lúthien for a time should be.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Sweet, Lying

• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Blessed, Heart, Men

• Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Light, Earth

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.424, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Country, Drama, Hands

• 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.

• Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Friendship, Goodbye, Peace

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1007, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Morning, Queens

  "The Fellowship of the Ring". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.

• One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Giving Up, Glowing, Evil

• He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Marching On, Mountain

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.536, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Home, Eye, Dark

• But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Night, Sea

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

• 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

• Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Queens, Dark

• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  People, Earth, Today

  1954 The Fellowship of the Ring, prologue.

• Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mistake, Ocean, Thinking

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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