JRR TOLKIEN BEST QUOTES

“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

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“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.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.” – J.R.R. Tolkien BEAUTIFUL DAY QUOTES AND SAYINGS

“The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Sometimes you need an adventure to cleanse the bitter taste of life from your soul.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them?” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“I have been to Middle-earth. Just as surely as Augustus Carp, Esquire, has been to Dunharrow, Andadunë, Númenor, the Manës, Faëry, and Hobbiton.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“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.” – J.R.R. Tolkien