John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Quotes | Inspirational Words of J. R. R. Tolkien ✒️

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus mean that one day everything said will come untrue. How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back. It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. You have to understand the good in things to detect the real evil. It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it. For still there are so many things that I have never seen. In every wood, in every spring, there is a different green. For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road. The Lord of the Rings is, of course, a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. His grief he will not forget, but it will not darken his heart. It will teach him wisdom. No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. 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 world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good, and maketh it seem hateful. It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. And then her heart change, or at least she understood it, and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her. I was talking aloud to myself, a habit of the old. They choose the wisest person present to speak to. Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum. Curse the Baggins. It's gone. What has it got in its pocketses? Oh, we guess, we guess, my precious. He's found it. Yes, he must have. The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. You will have to be one and whole for many years. You have so much to enjoy, and to be, and to do. There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth. Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the wise falter.