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
art two-towers deeper
Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
towers want sometimes
And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
spring savages towers
No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.
men age towers
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
men tongue two-towers
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.
fighting towers stories
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.
rocks elbows two-towers
Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!
war arrows towers
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
long say-anything towers
You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
dark towers may
There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
new-day shining towers
A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
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.
fall two-towers
Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall
behind crooked death fire passed son speak therefore till tongue wise words worm
The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till th