J. R. R. Tolkien quotes
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
"The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination."
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
"...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."
"Little by little, one travels far."
"The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it."
"There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone."
"I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size."
