{"author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien","total_quotes":385,"quotes":[{"text":"Under the Mountain dark and tallThe King has come unto his hall!His foe is dead,the Worm of Dread,And ever so his foes shall fall.The sword is sharp, the spear is long,The arrow swift, the Gate is strong;The heart is bold that looks on gold;The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong.The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,While hammers fells like ringing bellsIn places deep, where dark things sleep,In hollow halls beneath the fells.-from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song).","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["battle","dwarves","hobbit","song","tolkien"],"id":209,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Fly, you fools!' he cried, and was gone.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["fantasy"],"id":1101,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"All stories are ultimately about the fall.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["fantasy-fiction"],"id":2880,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["fantasy","fiction","on-fiction","tolkien","writing"],"id":5702,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Yes' Said Gandalf; 'for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of out fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["farewell","parting","sorrow"],"id":7224,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["frodo","inspirational","lord-of-the-rings","middle-earth","motivational","tolkien"],"id":7382,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Now fair and marvellous was that vessel made, and it was filled with a wavering flame, pure and bright; and Earendil the Mariner sat at the helm, glistening with dust of elven-gems, and the Silmaril was bound upon his brow. Far he journeyed in that ship, even into the starless voids; but most often was he seen at morning or at evening, glimmering in sunrise or sunset, as he came back to Valinor from voyages beyond the confines of the world.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["fantasy","silmarillion"],"id":8965,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["frodo","lord-of-the-rings","middle-earth","sam","tolkien","true-love"],"id":9122,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["fairy","form","quotes","spells","stories"],"id":10413,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,' said Merry. 'We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded.''Not to me,' said Frodo. 'To me it feels more like falling asleep again.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["dreams","sadness"],"id":12853,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":385,"pages":39,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}