J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Fall, Autumn

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Vision, Trials

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.881, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Long Ago, Brave

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