J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes about Home

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Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

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.

I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

J. R. R. Tolkien

Wall, Home, Men

"On Fairy-Stories". Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St. Andrews on March 08, 1939. "Essays presented to Charles Williams", 1947.

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We'll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Stars, Twilight, Home

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.63, 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”

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Home, Done, Lucky

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Lying, War, Home

"Fictional character: Faramir". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Nice, Home, Fire

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Home, Heart, Fire

But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Home, Eye, Dark

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Home, Eggs, Long

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes about Home

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