J. R. R. Tolkien Adventure Quotations

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

Adventures only make you late for dinner.

The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

Adventures make one late for supper.

I'm going on an adventure!

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead