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Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry

Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?

J. R. R. Tolkien
Wings, Bird, Hot
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast ‘em, fry and roast ‘em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, and light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Ya-harri-hey! Ya hoy!

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Lying, Eye, Night
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Way, Made, 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.780, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.

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

Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Fall, Dwarves, Hair
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Hate, Forever, Thieves

Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Sleep, Eye, Dark

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Spring, Giving, Tree

A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Nice, Two, Squash
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Eye, Dwarves, Air
J. R. R. Tolkien (1985). “The Hobbit”

Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Keys, Light, Shining
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

J. R. R. Tolkien
People, Language, Remember
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I'd got hobbits on my hands hadn't I?

J. R. R. Tolkien
Hands
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Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.

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Humanity, Clay
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I'm a Roman Catholic! A devout Roman Catholic.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Catholic, Roman Catholic
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I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Should Have, Style, Saws
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I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Guilt, Lord, Feels
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If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

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Thinking, Rivers, Imagination
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Slight changes simply make a blur.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Blur
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At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Years, Age, Kind
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Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Influence, Finnish, Has Beens
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