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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.

There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Fun, Remembers You, Remember You
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Want, Ifs, Great Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The burned hand teaches best.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Hands, Growth, Action
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.584, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Hope
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.859, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

J. R. R. Tolkien
Good Morning, Mean, Feel Good
J. R. R. Tolkien (2011). “The Hobbit (Enhanced Edition)”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Revenge, Useless, Lord Of The Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.684, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

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

I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Faith, Christian, Long
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Thinking, Fire, Long Ago
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Wall, Grief, Giving

Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Healing, Evil, Justice

If we all got angry together something might be done.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Anger, Together, Done
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.979, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

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

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Revenge, Bores, Ifs
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Christian, Lost Love, Fairy Stories
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Treacherous
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.568, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

J. R. R. Tolkien
May, Hateful, Tyranny

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Believe, Legends, Made
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Faith, Wise, Wisdom
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Real, Names, Long
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.323, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Heart, Men, Cynical
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.337, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Share, Difficult
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Hands, Storm, Defence
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.733, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Heart, Use, May
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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