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I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Odds, People, Impossible

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires

J. R. R. Tolkien
Blessed, Heart, Men

Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Home, World, Behind You
"Fictional character: Gandalf the Grey". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", 2012.

When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!

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

Don't go where I can't follow!

J. R. R. Tolkien
I Can
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.713, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Wise
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Faith, Blessed, Romance
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

J. R. R. Tolkien
Stories, Kind, Never Ending Story

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?

J. R. R. Tolkien
Soldier, Enemy, Fantasy Stories

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Heart, Mind, Impossible
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Moving, Stories, Untold Stories
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Inspiring, Running
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.690, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Two, Together, May
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.280, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Thinking, White, Hatred
Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford, reprinted in "The Monsters and the Critics" by Christopher Tolkien (2006), p. 238, June 5, 1959.

For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Heart, May, Knows
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Giving Up, Glowing, Evil

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Dirty, Sponges, American English
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Writing, Derivatives, Fantasy
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Strong, Moving, Eye
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Religious, Catholic, Revision
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Faith, Evil, Soil
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Men, Doubt, Sometimes
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Where will wants not, a way opens.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Want, Way
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.544, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Children, Wicked, Important

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Travel, Walking Sticks, Tree
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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