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| J. R. R. Tolkien |
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.50*)
"Do not be so quick to deal out death and judgment. Even the very wise do not see all ends." (Fellowship of the Ring, p.58*)
“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.82*)
“Courage is found in unlikely places.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.83*)
“Not all those who wander are lost.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.167*)
“A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.167*)
“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.226*)
"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.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.339*)
“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.252*)
“Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.262*)
“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.262*)
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.274*)
“Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.274*)
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.352*)
“You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.354*)
“Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.” (Fellowship of the Ring, p.365*)
“For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed.” (The Two Towers, p.501*)
“The wise speak only of what they know.” (The Return of the King, p. 503*)
“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” (The Return of the King, p. 767*)
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.” (The Return of the King, p. 859*)
“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.” (The Return of the King, p. 937*)
* Gleaned from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings box set, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994
