J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

• There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

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• Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It’s ours, it is, and we wants it.

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• But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers.

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• One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mord or where the Shadows lie.

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• There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, it may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

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• My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)… The most improper job of any man is bossing other men.

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• 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.

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• Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

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• 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.

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• A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

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• Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

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• It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

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• There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

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• A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

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• A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

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• In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

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• A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

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• The treacherous are ever distrustful.

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• Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

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• Wise men speak only of what they know.

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J. R. R. Tolkien (48)

Birth:	3rd January, 1892
Death:	2nd September, 1973
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Philologist, Poet, Professor

About

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. He was an English author, poet, philologist and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. He wrote several poems include: Namárië, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, Bilbo's Last Song, and The Sea-Bell. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.

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