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No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I

No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Stars, Memories, Flower
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.916, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Writing, Dark, Long Ago

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

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Inspiring Love, Rewards, Lord Of The Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.465, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it.

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Memories, Dark, Feet
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.810, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

J. R. R. Tolkien
Silence, Bird, Shadow
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Spring, Writing, Years

It is plain that we were meant to go together.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Together
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.286, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Rewards, Praise, Worthy

If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Hands, Victory, Ifs
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1049, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Flower, Fire, Feet
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Tired, Heart, Mean
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Religious, Cutting, Practice
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Kings, Fall, Loss
Appendices to "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien,

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Seems
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

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Children, Ocean, Sea
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Dinner, Late
"The Hobbit".

For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Receiving, Letters, Difficult

To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Morning, Son, Thinking
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Years, Two, Half
"Fictional character: Galadriel". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?

J. R. R. Tolkien
Nice, Juicy
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Hens, Beaks, Pens

Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Moon, Path, Excited
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Holes, Middle Earth, Great Hobbit
The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Heart, Hands, Sea
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Stars, Laughter, Lying
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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