When you think what someone thinks & do what they do, you'll find that you'll produce a similar result. - Marshall Sylver
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' - J.R.R. Tolkien
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. - J.R.R. Tolkien
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R. Tolkien
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth. - J.R.R. Tolkien
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. - J.R.R. Tolkien
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. - J.R.R. Tolkien
It? a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don? keep your feet, there? no knowing where you might be swept off to. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. - J.R.R. 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. - J.R.R. Tolkien
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Still round the corner there may wait / A new road or a secret gate / And though I oft have passed them by / A day will come at last when I / Shall take the hidden paths that run / West of the Moon, East of the Sun. - J.R.R. Tolkien
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