Quotes

J.R.R Tolkien

"Little by little one travels far."

"All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither. Deep roots are not reached by the forest."

"Look up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch."

"I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are evil."

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

"Courage is found in unlikely places."

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

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

"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."

"Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

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

"How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend, some hurts that go to deep, that have taken hold."

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in cheek. But that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid and he gives me courage."

"I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you don't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, its's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must past. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept on going, because they were holding onto something"