“This is worse than Mordor!” said Sam. “Much worse in a way. It comes home to you, as they say; because it is home, and you remember it before it was all ruined.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Lord of the Rings

“But men are better than gates, and no gate will endure against our Enemy if men desert it.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Lord of the Rings

“Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?” “A man may do both,” said Aragorn. “For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Lord of the Rings

“In this high place, you may see the two powers that are opposed to one another; and ever they strive now in thought, but whereas the light perceives the very heart of the darkness, its own secret has not been discovered.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Lord of the Rings

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Lord of the Rings

“Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Lord of the Rings

“Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Lord of the Rings