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J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes about Heart

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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Moving, Heart, No Turning Back

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Grief, Heart, Forget

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.851, 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

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Hurt, Taken, Heart

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart, Trying, Heat

"The Children of Húrin".

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”

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

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

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

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

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

What does your heart tell you?

J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart, Doe, Obi Wan Kenobi

"Fictional character: Aragorn". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Wall, Heart, Hands

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart, Fire, Hands

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

Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Song, Home, Heart

J.R.R. Tolkien (1973). “The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers”

Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart, Faithful, May

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.360, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart, Light, Understanding

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Great heart will not be denied.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart, Great Hearts, Denied

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.824, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Grief, Heart, Men

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.849, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).

J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart, Grumbling, Way

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Tired, Heart, Mean

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart, Hands, Sea

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart, Pity, Gentle

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.649, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart, Eye, Thinking

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Believe, Heart, Light

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.941, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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