Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
J.R.R. TolkienTag: silence speech discretion thoughts indiscretion fair-words
I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.
J.R.R. TolkienTag: history christianity secularism
Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: "The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring.
J.R.R. TolkienDo not spoil the wonder with haste!
J.R.R. TolkienTag: life
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
J.R.R. TolkienTag: inspirational
Korkularından kaçtığını sanan bir adam, kestirme bir yoldan dosdoğru onlara koşmaktadır aslında.
J.R.R. TolkienThere is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.
J.R.R. TolkienThe Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.
J.R.R. TolkienGood morning! said Bilbo, and he meant it.
J.R.R. TolkienDwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.
J.R.R. TolkienTag: characterization
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