"I am a Christian, and of course what I write is, of course, Christian. I mean, I don't mean that I've tried to make it Christian at all, it's not Christian in that sense. It's not propaganda. It is a …"

"The hobbits are, in fact, a self-portrait, if I may say so, not of what I am, but of what I should like to be."

"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead."

"I wish it need not have happened in my time, ' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do w…"

"I have a great love for the language of England, and the English tongue."