John Ronald Reuel Tolkien quotes

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. Words from a man known for his amazing wisdom. Enjoy these golden quotes. We also invite you, to join our family, the family of quotes, by subscribing to the channel. Welcome everybody. Courage is found in unlikely places. For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make. Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world, small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road. 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. From the ashes a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king. 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. The road goes ever on and on down, from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And with the then, I cannot say. Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. Short cuts make long delays. The wide world is all about you, you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. 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 judgment, for even the very wise cannot see all ends. He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. I am at home among trees. One ring to rule them all. One ring to find them. One ring to bring them all. And in the darkness bind them. The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story. Time doesn't seem to pass here, it just is. For nothing is evil in the beginning. For still there are so many things that I have never seen, in every wood in every spring there is a different green. Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate and though I oft have passed them by a day will come at last when I shall take the hidden paths that run west of the moon, east of the sun. It's a dangerous business going out of your front door, there's no telling where you might be swept off to. What course am I to take, towards danger, but not too rashly, nor too straight. Handsome is as handsome does. Don't go where I can't follow, fair speech may hide a foul heart. I was talking aloud to myself, a habit of the old, they choose the wisest person present to speak to. Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. The treacherous are ever distrustful. Don't the great tales never end? No, they never end as tales, said Frodo. But the people in them come and go when their parts ended. Our part will end later or sooner. Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope. And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy ending or sad ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to. There's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. 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. Better mistrust undeserved than rash words. Often does hatred hurt itself. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark. The wise speak only of what they know. Every man has something too dear to trust to another. I have spoken words of hope, but only of hope. Hope is not victory. Faithful heart may have forward tongue. I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. Above all shadows rides the sun and stars forever dwell. I will not say the day is done, nor bid the stars farewell. I am glad you are here with me, here at the end of all things, Sam. It is useless to meet revenge with revenge, it will heal nothing. A world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world, have more bitterness and shame, for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned. And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it, and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her. Do not spoil the wonder with haste.