Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. J. R. R. Tolkien More Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien More Quotes From J. R. R. Tolkien For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. J. R. R. Tolkien greendifferentspring Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R. Tolkien faithinspirationallife 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 starsfaithheart Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. J. R. R. Tolkien wiseinspirationallife 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 mindimpossibleheart Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow. J. R. R. Tolkien healingeviljustice There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go. J. R. R. Tolkien remembers-youremember-youfun The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love. J. R. R. Tolkien fairy-storieslost-lovechristian The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. J. R. R. Tolkien inspirationhopelove It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. J. R. R. Tolkien celebratesimple-lifesimple You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. J. R. R. Tolkien wituseheart Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can. J. R. R. Tolkien heathearttrying I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery. J. R. R. Tolkien pridehumilityspiritual We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil. J. R. R. Tolkien menphilosophyfall 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 fantasy-storiessoldierenemy Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. J. R. R. Tolkien walking-stickstreetravel There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet. J. R. R. Tolkien togetherlaughingheaven For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth. J. R. R. Tolkien foundationsorrowspring May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. J. R. R. Tolkien lightdarkmay Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine. J. R. R. Tolkien poniessunshineadventure
