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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He did not remember things very well, unless he put them down on his Engagement Tablet: like this: Gandalf Tea Wednesday.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright, and his face was red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
Description of Tom Bombadil
He keeps hives and hives of great fierce bees, and lives most on cream and honey.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Gandalf
Talking about Beorn
He laughed a great rolling laugh, put down his axe and came forward.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
About Beorn.
He loved maps, as I have told you before; and he also liked runes and letters and cunning handwriting, though when he wrote himself it was a bit thin and spidery.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
He nibbled a bit of sorrel, and he drank from a small mountain-stream that crossed the path, and he ate three wild strawberries that he found on its bank, but it was not much good.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Gandalf
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 3 - A Short Rest
About Elrond.
Hobbits have no beards. There is little or no magic about them, except the everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
I am just about to take tea; pray come and have some with me.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Quoted: Bilbo
I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror King under the Mountain!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 10 - A Warm Welcome
Quoted: Thorin
I choose a mortal life.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Arwen
Quote from the movie
I do not fear death.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Aragorn
Quote from the movie
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Bilbo
I have the eyes of a hawk and the ears of a fox.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Gimli
I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit – Chapter 10 – A warm welcome
I thought up an ending for my book. "And he lives happily ever after, till the end of his days."
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Bilbo
Quote from the movie
I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The return of the King
Quoted: Eowyn
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
Quoted: Gandalf
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Arwen
Quote from the movie
If ever you are passing my way, don't wait to knock! Tea is at four; but any of you are welcome at any time!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 18 - The Return Journey
Quoted: Bilbo
Saying good-bye to the dwarves
If I take one more step it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Thorin
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.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
This is how The Hobbit book begins.
In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil
In the end he poked his head above the roof of leaves, and then he found spiders all right. But they were only small ones of ordinary size, and they were after the butterflies.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
What Bilbo sees after climbing a tree
Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark
Quoted: Gollum
It brought thousands of dark-grey and black moths, some nearly as big as your hand, flapping and whirring round their ears.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About the effect of lighting watch-fires
It was after tea-time; it was pouring with rain, and had been all day; his hood was dripping into his eyes, his cloak was full of water; the pony was tired and stumbled on stones; the others were too grumpy to talk.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again