Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!"
"No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!
deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.
J.R.R. Tolkienevil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
J.R.R. TolkienIt seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: time journey distance travel
his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
J.R.R. TolkienYou'll live to regret it, young fellow! Why didn't you go too? You don't belong here; you're no Baggins—you—you're a Brandybuck!'
'Did you hear that, Merry? That was an insult, if you like,' said Frodo as he shut the door on her.
'It was a compliment,' said Merry Brandybuck, 'and so, of course, not true.
I am like a burglar that can't get away, but must go on miserably burgling the same house day after day.
—Bilbo Baggins
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: inspirational writing myths legends
For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: faerie
Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: life death charity heroic
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