J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Stars, Heart

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

• How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hurt, Taken, Heart

• How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moving, Heart, No Turning Back

• I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Tired, Heart, Mean

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Use, Wit

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.452, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Heart, Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Hands, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Men, Cynical

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.337, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Trying, Heat

  "The Children of Húrin".

• And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

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

• His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Heart, Forget

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.851, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Believe, Heart, Light

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.941, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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.

• I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Mind, Impossible

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Lying, Heart

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Drinking, Rain

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• What does your heart tell you?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Doe, Obi Wan Kenobi

  "Fictional character: Aragorn". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

• Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Dark, Wrath

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Philosophy, Heart, May

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.461, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Winter, Sun

• Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Heart, Care

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.844, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Heart, Fate

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

• Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Heart, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.849, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. -from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Strong, Kings

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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