J.R.R. Tolkien

"The North Polar Bear is called Mr. Paws and he is so silly, you would hardly believe it."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Courage is found in unlikely places."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"You can only come to the morning through the shadows."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"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. Tolkien

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Do not then stumble at the end of the road."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand—that and such hope as I bring."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin—to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours—closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don't go where I can't follow!"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"His old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It’s the job that’s never started as takes the longest to finish."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Not all who wander are lost"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"’Good Morning!’ said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

""It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.""

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Go back? No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go! So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure that I’m arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Not all who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I will not say: Do not weep; For not all tears are evil."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The gray rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"… for a man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Never laugh at live dragons."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Where there’s life there’s hope."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It's not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies In summers that have been Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair I sit beside the fire and think Of how the world will be When winter comes without a spring That I shall ever see For still there are so many things That I have never seen In every wood in every spring There is a different green I sit beside the fire and think Of people long ago And people that will see a world That I shall never know But all the while I sit and think Of times there were before I listen for returning feet And voices at the door"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Foam is white and waves are grey; Beyond the sunset leads my way."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"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. Tolkien

"Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"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. Tolkien

"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Speak, or I will make a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find it hard to deal with!"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"'He stands not alone... You would die before your stroke fell.'"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"'Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.'"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Often does hatred hurt itself!"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man's pity."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what? GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise. PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad. GANDALF: No. No, it isn't."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains in the moon. Roads go ever ever on, Under cloud and under star. Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen, And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green, And trees and hills they long have known. The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. The Road goes ever on and on Out from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone. Let others follow, if they can! Let them a journey new begin. But I at last with weary feet Will turn towards the lighted inn, My evening-rest and sleep to meet."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"But no living man am I!"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"None knows what the new day shall bring him."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The World Is Not In Your Books And Maps, It Is Out There"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I think I’m quite ready for another adventure."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"What do you fear, lady? A cage, to stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Each day brings new possibilities for exploration and discovery."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

""I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.""

- J.R.R. Tolkien

""I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.""

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take."

- J.R.R. Tolkien