The Return of the King Quotes

“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour 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.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:evil

“Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:hopedespair

“Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand—that and such hope as I bring.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:hopecourage

“in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:hopedarknesslight

“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:memorysorrow

“the world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:war

“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a...”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:woman

“Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:sadness

“I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:responsibility

“Where will wants not, a way opens”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:will