Best 6 quotes of J. R. R Tolkein on MyQuotes

If room isn’t found for them, they’ll find it for themselves. They’ve a right to live, same as other folk,’ he said loudly. The local inhabitants did not look pleased at the prospect.

If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.

In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth.

in this neighborhood heroes are scarce, or simply lot to be found. Swords in these parts are mostly blunt, and axes are used for trees, and shields as cradles or dish-covers; and dragons are comfortably far-off (and therefore legendary).

My mind does not change with the rising and setting of a few suns

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not quite always the something you were after.