J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there are

It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead
J. R. R. Tolkien
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.
J. R. R. Tolkien
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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
I don’t like allegories.
J. R. R. Tolkien
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to f

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat…giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Not all those who wander are lost.
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
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
True education is a kind of never ending story — a matt

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
J. R. R. Tolkien