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J. R. R. Tolkien

Read through the most famous quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien




I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.


— J. R. R. Tolkien


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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.


— J. R. R. Tolkien


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Courage is found in unlikely places.


— J. R. R. Tolkien


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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.


— J. R. R. Tolkien


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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.


— J. R. R. Tolkien


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I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.


— J. R. R. Tolkien


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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.


— J. R. R. Tolkien


#golden #hid #hinges #inside #key

Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.


— J. R. R. Tolkien


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I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.


— J. R. R. Tolkien


#i #i wish #know #languages #life

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.


— J. R. R. Tolkien


#cheer #food #gold #more #song






About J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes




Did you know about J. R. R. Tolkien?

According to the memoirs of the Reverend Mervyn S. Ultimately he never served as one. From 1812 Tolkien's great-great-grandfather William Suffield had a book and stationery shop there; from 1826 Tolkien's great-grandfather also named John Suffield had a drapery and hosiery business there.

He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College Oxford from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Merton College Oxford from 1945 to 1959. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972. Between 1951 and 1955 Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings.

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