J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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

  Song, Strong, Good Day

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, Dwarves, Air

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1985). “The Hobbit”

• Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Pleasure, Delicate

  "A Secret Vice". Lecture in 1931. "The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays". Book edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1983.

• It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Writing, Names, Giving

  Interview with Dennis Gerrolt. BBC Radio 4 programme "Now Read On", January 1971.

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