In the words of J. R. R. Tolkien:
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.
Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.
Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.
Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.
It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.
True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
Don't tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them.
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.
A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.
All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
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