J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE, FRSL, known by his pen name J. R. R. Tolkien, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 January 1892
hope doubt despair
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
darkness shadow towers
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn'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, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
abortion fellowship lord-of-the-ring
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
courage travel bravery
Courage is found in unlikely places.
family party book
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.
heart trying heat
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
revenge useless lord-of-the-ring
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
evil mortality
For nothing is evil in the beginning.
hands middle-earth teach
The burned hand teaches best.
jobs opportunity men
The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
doors going-out lord-of-the-ring
It's a dangerous business, going out your door.
For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.
simple simple-life celebrate
It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
spring green woods
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.