Famous Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

Below are famous quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien - British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973).

...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Little by little, one travels far.

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...

Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

The world has changed.
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

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