J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Philosophy, People

• Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Soldier, Enemy, Fantasy Stories

• The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Voice, Darkness, Enemy

• The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, War, Home

  "Fictional character: Faramir". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

• But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moving, Games, Enemy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.743, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Art, Enemy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Enemy, Mountain, Ruins

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Daughter, White, Enemy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.587, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's. Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death-blow?' And the Ring that he held seemed to him exceedingly fair to look on; and he would not suffer it to be destroyed.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Brother, Father, Blow

• It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Enemy, Littles, Matter

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Enemy, Woe, Trails

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.293, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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