Quotes from JRR Tolkien
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
— JRR Tolkien
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
— JRR Tolkien
Short cuts make for long delays.
— JRR Tolkien
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.
— JRR Tolkien
This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.
— JRR Tolkien
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead
— JRR Tolkien
What punishments of God are not gifts?
— JRR Tolkien
Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
— JRR Tolkien
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
— JRR Tolkien
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
— JRR Tolkien
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
— JRR Tolkien
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
— JRR Tolkien