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"32 J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 3 January 1892. Died: 2 September 1973 | Writer | Poet |
Not all those who wander are lost.
Lost Those Wander Who
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

Weep Say Evil Tear
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

About Cannot Fence Forever
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Decide Given Time Us
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
Safe Untrue Worlds Fairyland
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

After Dragons Ending Even
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
Courage Found Places Unlikely
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Friend Mine Shorthand Talk
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Corner Gate May New
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Box Golden Hid Hinges
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Affairs Anger Meddle Quick
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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

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

Above Cheer Food Gold
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Calculations Does Dragon Him
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

About He I Wish Know
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Finish Job Longest Never
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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.

Deserve Half Know Less
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Farewell He Road Says
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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.

Cannot Deal Death Deserve
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
Hen Me Pen Beak
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

Ancient Countryside Earth Favourite
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

Big Business Getting Go
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

Been Begin Children Could
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Art Contain Elements Error
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
Folly Friend May Part
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Almost Any As Far As Attention
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

Am Chapters Costs Could
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Been Chosen Heart Must
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Short cuts make long delays.
Cuts Delays Long Make
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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 frost.

Deep Does Frost Glitter
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and 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.

Any Anything Even Fit
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J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes & Sayings