And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the de….

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate..

I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons.….

Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless l….

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless.

Where will wants not, a way opens..

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places..

Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter..

He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can..

I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And….

There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was….

I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, t….

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shor….

I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and l….

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!.

Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle..

And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire..

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit..

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might ….

The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and rayed Su….

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds..