Quotes

It is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points.

The guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door.

Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep ... that have taken hold.

Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.

If we all got angry together something might be done.

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead, Today and tomorrow are yet to be said, The chances, the changes are all yours to make, The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

Never laugh at live dragons.

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

Short cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them