J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Labour

Quotes about: Labour

• evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Evil, Soil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mother, Giving, Way

• Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Fire, Support

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Writing, Years

• They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wings, Mind, Links

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