“She should not die, so young and beautiful. At least, she should not die alone.” ~ LotR
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ~ LotR
“He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.” ~ LotR
“It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.” ~LotR
“Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.” ~LotR
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule” ~ LotR
“The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Lord of the Ring and The Hobbit, and those who are going to read them.” -Sunday Times
“How, given little over half a century of work, did one man become the creative equivalent of a people?” -The Guardian
“…my love is given to the Morning. And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away for ever.” ~ LotR
“She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark.” LotR
“Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates of night and pours its voice among the dying stars,
seeing the sun behind the walls of the world; and the song of Luthien released the bonds of winter, and the frozen waters spoke, and flowers
sprang from the cold earth where her feet had passed.” – The Silmarillion