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

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

J. R. R. Tolkien
Wizards, Hats, Speak

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Darkness, Books And Movies, Fellowship
The Fellowship of the Ring epigraph (1954)

Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undómiel daughter of Elrond.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Daughter, Eye, Light
J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's. Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death-blow?' And the Ring that he held seemed to him exceedingly fair to look on; and he would not suffer it to be destroyed.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Brother, Father, Blow

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Book, Beer, Done
1954 The Fellowship of the Ring, foreword.

I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Believe, Heart, Light
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.941, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I wisely started with a map.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Maps
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Lying, Names, Doom

He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

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Eye, Glasses, Light
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

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May, False Hope, Middle Earth
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Men, Evil, Judging

he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Ideas, Long, Hobbies

That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.

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Believe, Land, Purpose
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Fellowship, Way, Lord Of The Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 2, ch. 2 (1954)

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Helping
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.529, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course wrong to fall into such a mood, for Wars are always lost, and War always goes on; and it is no good growing faint.

J. R. R. Tolkien
War, Fall, Goes On

Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Troll, Suspicious
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Dream, Real, Party
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.

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Beautiful, Doors, Sky
J. R. R. Tolkien (1963). “Angles and Britons”, Cardiff, University of Wales Press

it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts

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Believe, Dragons, Easy
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Sweet, Pain, Heart
J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

My armor 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!

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Wings, Teeth, Armor
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Morning, Spring, Winter
"Fictional character: Gríma Wormtongue". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Nice, Would Be, Half
"The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Men, Tongue, Two Towers

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