J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer and poet who lived from 1892 to 1973. He is best known and famous for his books “The Hobbit” (1937) and “The Lord of the Rings” (1954-55). The Lord of the Rings was published in three volumes titled “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers” and “The Return of the King”. It is one of the best-selling books ever written.
This is a collection of quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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There were rockets like a flight of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. There were green trees with trunks of dark smoke: their leaves opened like a whole spring unfolding in a moment, and their shining branches dropped glowing flowers down upon the astonished hobbits, disappearing with a sweet scent just before they touched their upturned faces. There were fountains of butterflies that flew glittering into the trees; there were pillars of coloured fires that rose and turned into eagles, or sailing ships, or a phalanx of flying swans; there was a red thunderstorm and a shower of yellow rain; there was a forest of silver spears that sprang suddenly into the air with a yell like an embattled army, and came down again into the Water with a hiss like a hundred hot snakes.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
About Gandalf's fireworks
They sat long at the table with their wooden drinking bowls filled with mead.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
About Bilbo and the dwarves when they visit Beorn.
They were a kind of "purple emperor", a butterfly that loves the tops of oak-woods, but these were not purple at all, they were a dark dark velvety black without any markings to be seen.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo looking at butterflies
Thorin wielded his axe with mighty strokes, and nothing seemed to harm him.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 17 - The Clouds Burst
About Thorin fighting.
Though he was only a black shadow in the gleam of his own eyes, Bilbo could see or feel that he was tense as a bowstring, gathered for a spring.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark
About Gollum.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
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 Mordor where the Shadows lie.
J.R.R. TolkienSeven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
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 Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Under the Mountain dark and tall
the King has come unto his hall!
His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread,
And ever so his foes shall fall.
J.R.R. Tolkienthe King has come unto his hall!
His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread,
And ever so his foes shall fall.
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 15 - The Gathering of the Clouds
Part of a song by the dwarves.
We are getting near. We are on the edge of his bee-pastures.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Gandalf
Talking about Beorn
Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
Quoted: Legolas
Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Sam
What do you mean? 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?
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit – Chapter 1 – An unexpected party
Quoted: Gandalf
What on earth did I ask him to tea for!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Whether it was magic or not, it seemed to Bilbo that he heard a sound like wind in the branches stirring in the rafters, and the hoot of owls.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
With a shriek that deafened men, felled trees and split stone, Smaug shot spouting into the air, turned over and crashed down from on high in ruin.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 14 - Fire and Water
About Smaug dying.
Wizards after all are wizards.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J.R.R. Tolkien