# J.R.R. Tolkien - Quotes: 74 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien.json ## Books - [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md) — 46 quotes - [The Hobbit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-hobbit.md) — 8 quotes - [The Silmarillion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion.md) — 20 quotes ## Recently added quotes > Here I have found what I sought not indeed, but finding I would possess for ever. For it is above all gold and silver, and beyond all jewels. Neither rock, nor steel, nor the fires of Morgoth, nor all the powers of the Elf-kingdoms, shall keep from me the treasure that I desire. For Lúthien your daughter is the fairest of all the Children of the World. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/here-i-have.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/love-not-too.md) Topics: [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [advice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advice.md) > He that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed while others reap and sow in his stead. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/he-that-sows.md) Topics: [lies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies.md) > Men took weapons in those days and slew one another for little cause; for they were become quick to anger, and Sauron, or those whom he had bound to himself, went about the land setting man against man, so that the people murmured against the King and the lords, or against any that had aught that they had not; and the men of power took cruel revenge. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/men-took-weapons.md) Topics: [anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger.md), [revenge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revenge.md) > 'Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.' [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/many-are-the.md) Topics: [wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom.md), [chance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/chance.md) > Now Sauron's lust and pride increased, until he knew no bounds, and he determined to make himself master of all things in Middle-earth, and to destroy the Elves, and to compass, if he might, the downfall of Númenor. He brooked no freedom nor any rivalry, and he named himself Lord of the Earth. A mask he still could wear so that if he wished he might deceive the eyes of Men, seeming to them wise and fair. But he ruled rather by force and fear, if they might avail; and those who perceived his shadow spreading over the world called him the Dark Lord and named him the Enemy. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/now-saurons-lust.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [pride](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride.md) > Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/among-the-tales.md) Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [joy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy.md) > To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well; and by treason of kin unto kin, and the fear of treason, shall this come to pass. The Dispossessed shall they be for ever. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/to-evil-end.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Those who used the Nine Rings became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old. They obtained glory and great wealth, yet it turned to their undoing. They had, as it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to them. They could walk, if they would, unseen by all eyes in this world beneath the sun, and they could see things in worlds invisible to mortal men; but too often they beheld only the phantoms and delusions of Sauron. And one by one, sooner or later, according to their native strength and to the good or evil of their wills in the beginning, they fell under the thraldom of the ring that they bore and under the domination of the One, which was Sauron's. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/those-who-used.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [immortality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/immortality.md) > The Doom of Men, that they should depart, was at first a gift of Ilúvatar. It became a grief to them only because coming under the shadow of Morgoth it seemed to them that they were surrounded by a great darkness, of which they were afraid; and some grew wilful and proud and would not yield, until life was reft from them. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/the-doom-of-men.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [fear of death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear-of-death.md) > The love of Arda was set in your hearts by Ilúvatar, and he does not plant to no purpose. Nonetheless, many ages of Men unborn may pass ere that purpose is made known; and to you it will be revealed and not to the Valar. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/the-love-of-arda.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [purpose](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/purpose.md) > The lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/the-lies-that.md) Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md), [lies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies.md)