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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Nice, Liars, Dragons
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Way, Tomorrow, Over It
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Aure entuluva! day shall come again!

J. R. R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Children of Húrin”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?

J. R. R. Tolkien
Kings, Eye, Light
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.586, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Crush, Lost, Curse
The Hobbit, 2nd ed., ch. 5 (1951)

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

J. R. R. Tolkien
Friendship, Frodo, Return Of The King
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.926, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Heart, Land, Together
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.466, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Courage, Fire, Dragons
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Night, Eagles, Rude

Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go

J. R. R. Tolkien
Giving, Samwise Gamgee, Frodo
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.919, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Dirty, Mean, Smell
The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Morning, Memories, Climbing

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Beach, Wall, Dwelling
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Stars, June, Missing
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Our World, Different, Earth

And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Beautiful, Morning, Queens
"The Fellowship of the Ring". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.

Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Mistrust
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.657, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Night, Blood, Towers

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Fire, Marching On, Mountain
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.536, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
Dream, Fall, Autumn
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Voice, Darkness, Enemy

And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Grief, Fate, Loss
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Success, Frodo, Middle Earth
"Fictional character: Frodo Baggins". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", 2003.

The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Running, Swimming, Light
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).

J. R. R. Tolkien
Dwarves, Sight, Troll
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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