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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It was as if a globe had been filled with moonlight and hung before them in a net woven of the glint of frosty stars.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 16 - A Thief in the Night
About the Arkenstone.
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Bilbo
Just before tea-time there came a tremendous ring on the front-door bell, and then he remembered! He rushed and put on the kettle, and put out another cup and saucer, and an extra cake or two, and ran to the door.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Little bunny is getting nice and fat again on bread and honey.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Beorn
Talking about Bilbo
Maddened and angry they were leaping and howling round the trunks, and cursing the dwarves in their horrible language, with their tongues hanging out, and their eyes shining as red and fierce as the flames.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 6 - Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire
About the wargs
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.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Gandalf
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Gandalf
Talking to the Eagles
My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Smaug
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit
Not all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Not far away were dreary hills, rising higher and higher, dark with trees. On some of them were old castles with an evil look, as if they had been built by wicked people.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Near the trolls.
Nothing moved in the waste, save the vapour and the water, and every now and again a black and ominous crow. The only sound was the sound of the stony water, and every now and again the harsh croak of a bird. Balin shuddered.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 11 - On the Doorstep
About the Desolation of the Dragon.
Now Galadriel rose from the grass, and taking a cup from one of her maidens she filled it with white mead and gave it to Celeborn.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Now scuttle off, and come back quick, if all is well. If not, come back if you can! It you can't, hoot twice like a barn-owl and once like a screech-owl, and we will do what we can.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Quoted: Thorin
Off Bilbo had to go, before he could explain that he could not hoot even once like any kind of owl any more than fly like a bat.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
Old fat spider can't see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop,
Stop your spinning and look for me?
J.R.R. TolkienOld fat spider can't see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop,
Stop your spinning and look for me?
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Part of Bilbo's song about spiders
On the table in the light of a big lamp with a red shade he spread a piece of parchment rather like a map.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
About the map which shows The Mountain where the dragon lives.
Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood the wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 6 - Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire
Quite a merry gathering! I hope there is something left for the late-comers to eat and drink! What's that? Tea! No thank you! A little red wine, I think for me.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Quoted: Gandalf
Royal indeed did Thorin look, clad in a coat of gold-plated rings, with a silver-hafted axe in a belt crusted with scarlet stones.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 13 - Not at Home
About Thorin
Sleep! I feel the need of it. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
Quoted: Gimli
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit
So he sat down and wished in vain for a wash and a brush. He did not get either, nor tea nor toast nor bacon for his breakfast, only cold mutton and rabbit.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Some called for ale, and some for porter, and one for coffee, and all of them for cakes; so the hobbit was kept very busy for a while.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
When the dwarves visit Bilbo
Somehow the killing of a giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of a wizard or the dwarves or anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.
"I will give you a name," he said to it, "and I shall call you Sting."
J.R.R. Tolkien"I will give you a name," he said to it, "and I shall call you Sting."
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About Bilbo
Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not today. Good morning! But please come to tea - any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Come tomorrow! Good bye!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
Quoted: Bilbo
Bilbo, trying to get rid of Gandalf
South away! and South away!
Seek the sunlight and the day,
Back to pasture, back to mead,
Where the kine and oxen feed!
Back to gardens on the hills
Where the berry swells and fills
Under sunlight, under day!
South away! and South away!
J.R.R. TolkienSeek the sunlight and the day,
Back to pasture, back to mead,
Where the kine and oxen feed!
Back to gardens on the hills
Where the berry swells and fills
Under sunlight, under day!
South away! and South away!
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 9 - Barrels Out of Bond
Part of a song by the elves
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
Quoted: Bilbo
Bilbo Baggins describing the fireworks of Gandalf.
Sssss, .... Praps ye sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my preciousss. It like riddles, praps it does, does it?
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark
Quoted: Gollum