May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes
The hobbits are just what I should like to have been but never was – an entirely unmilitary people who always came up to scratch in a clinch.
Every morning I wake up and think good, another 24 hours’ pipe-smoking.
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
Lonely men are we, Rangers of the wild, hunters – but hunters ever of the servants of the Enemy; for they are found in many places, not in Mordor only. If Gondor, Boromir, has been a stalwart tower, we have played another part. Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords […]
And O! The rows of silver dishes and the store of silver spoons! For sunday there’s a special pair, and these they polish up with care on saturday afternoons… With a ping and a pang the fiddle strings broke! The cow jumped over the moon, the little dog laughed to see such fun, and the […]
Silence fell again. Frodo, even in that fair house, looking out upon a sunlit valley filled with the noise of the clear waters, felt a dead darkness in his heart.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
If we could get back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and the process of governing and it should be an offense to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people. If people were in the habit of […]
Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, “a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.” Merely to be there was a cure […]
