Top Twenty Quotes from Tolkien (Guest Post)

Every year on March 25, the anniversary of the Downfall of Sauron, the Tolkien Society hosts Tolkien Reading Day. This year’s theme is Life, Death, and Immortality. The primary goal is to promote the reading of the works of J.R R. Tolkien! To celebrate, Pages Unbound will be hosting two weeks of Tolkien-related posts. In addition to our own thoughts, we will be featuring guest posts,interviews, and giveaways!

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Hi everyone!

I’m Arvenig and I’m the blogger from http://www.arvenig.it/blog/.

Today in this guest post I’m going to contribute to the Tolkien Reading
Event (here on Pages Unbound) by writing the top twenty quotes from
Tolkien. So let’s start!

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is
  given to us -The Fellowship of the Ring

• 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
  -The Fellowship of the Ring

• Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to
  tread, Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all
  alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back and home to
  bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall
  fade! -The Fellowship of the Ring

• It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You
  step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing
  where you might be swept off to. -The Lord of the Rings

• A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only
  taken a short cut to meet. -The Children of Húrin

• 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. -The Lord of the Rings

• May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails
  and the moon walks. -The Hobbit

• I will not walk backward in life. -The Children of Húrin

• Even the smallest person can change the course of the
  future. -The Fellowship of the Ring

• Courage is found in unlikely places. -The Lord of
  the Rings

• You are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after
  all! -The Hobbit

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

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is
  given us. -The Fellowship of the Ring
• Deeds will not be less valiant because they are
  unpraised. -The Return of the King

• Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a
  formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories

• The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes
  a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates
  is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe
  it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the
  spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. -On Fairy Stories

• Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in
  our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in
  the image and likeness of a Maker. –The Monsters and the Critics and other
  essays

• Their ‘magic’ is Art, delivered from many of its human
  limitations. -The Silmarillion

• A story must be told or there’ll be no story, yet it is the
  untold stories that are most moving. Don’t adventures ever have an end?
  I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the
  story. -The Lord of the Rings

• 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. -The Fellowship of the Ring

That’s it- the 20 best quotes that J.R.R. Tolkien said or wrote!

What’s your favorite quote by Tolkien?

Have a great day,

~Arvenig