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There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Laughing, Heaven, Together
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Good Morning, Morning, Shadow

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

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Faith, Inspiration, Light
Letter to Edith. "J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography". Book by Humphrey Carpenter, p. 66, 1977.

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
Life, Experience, Looks
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
War, Arrows, Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Change, Happiness
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Little by little, one travels far

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Haste, Wonder, Spoil
"The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Darkness, Shadow, World
"Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

The wise speak only of what they know

J. R. R. Tolkien
Wise, Speak, Middle Earth
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
Country, Rain, Journey
"Fictional characters: Pippin, Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspiring, Encouraging, Travel
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Wind, Somewhere Else, Lost

It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Simple, Simple Life, Celebrate

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

J. R. R. Tolkien
Fear, Taken, Cutting
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Philosophy, Fall, Men

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

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Travel
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Eden, Long, Exile
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Heart, Use, Wit
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.452, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Art, Philosophy, People

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

J. R. R. Tolkien
God, Believe, Purpose

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
Death, Wise, Giving
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Mean, Wizards, Fellowship

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