J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
1892 – 1973
English author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings".
22 quotesAbout J. R. R. Tolkien on Wikipedia
“The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.”
“Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time.”
“Though now long estranged, man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.”
“In Paradise they no more look awry; and though they make anew, they make no lie.”
“The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed.”
“Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home?”
“The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it.”
“Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.”
“The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning.”
“For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.”
“There was once a little man called Niggle, who had a long journey to make.”
“No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes.”
“Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”
“A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.”
