That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered. J. R. R. Tolkien More Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien More Quotes From J. R. R. Tolkien This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. J. R. R. Tolkien flower kings time A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night. J. R. R. Tolkien towers night blood If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it. J. R. R. Tolkien victory ifs hands Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with! J. R. R. Tolkien wizards hats speak Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. J. R. R. Tolkien use heart may It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. J. R. R. Tolkien foe war needs One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest. J. R. R. Tolkien glowing giving-up evil Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair! J. R. R. Tolkien queens dark beautiful And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate. J. R. R. Tolkien fate simple evil I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. J. R. R. Tolkien eowyn and-love want End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. J. R. R. Tolkien glasses journey rain There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark. J. R. R. Tolkien towers dark may 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 home war lying Handsome is as handsome does J. R. R. Tolkien handsomeness handsome doe 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. J. R. R. Tolkien marching-on mountain fire he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion. J. R. R. Tolkien hobbies long ideas Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! J. R. R. Tolkien flower fire feet Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell. J. R. R. Tolkien stars strong lying 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! J. R. R. Tolkien queens morning beautiful Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time. J. R. R. Tolkien three age men
