The Fellowship of the Ring Quotes

“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:wisdom

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:world

“Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:evil

“For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:future

“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:worksuccess

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:hopedespair

“The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:hopepresent

“Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:books

“Courage is found in unlikely places”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:couragebravery

“Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy!”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:courageenemy