J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes - Page 17

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• Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

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  Art, Way, Belief

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

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  Life, Book, Beer

  "The Lost Road and Other Writings". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Chapter: "Alboin Errol", 1987.

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• It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

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  Way, Tomorrow, Over It

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Aure entuluva! day shall come again!

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  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Children of Húrin”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?

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  Kings, Eye, Light

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.586, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

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  Crush, Lost, Curse

  The Hobbit, 2nd ed., ch. 5 (1951)

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• I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

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  Friendship, Frodo, Return Of The King

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.926, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

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  Courage, Fire, Dragons

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!

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  Night, Eagles, Rude

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• Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go

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  Giving, Samwise Gamgee, Frodo

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.919, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

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  Dirty, Mean, Smell

  The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

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• Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

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  Heart, Land, Together

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.466, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.

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  Morning, Memories, Climbing

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• Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

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  Stars, June, Missing

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

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  Beach, Wall, Dwelling

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

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  Our World, Different, Earth

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• 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!

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  Beautiful, Morning, Queens

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

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• And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.

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  Grief, Fate, Loss

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Voice, Darkness, Enemy

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• 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.

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  Fire, Marching On, Mountain

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

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• Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

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  Mistrust

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.657, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Dream, Fall, Autumn

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

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• A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

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  Night, Blood, Towers

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• We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

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  Success, Frodo, Middle Earth

  "Fictional character: Frodo Baggins". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", 2003.

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• The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!

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  Running, Swimming, Light

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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