J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us.

A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.

One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

As far as I can see, in this world, you’re a fool for not using whatever gifts you’re given. It’s not as though you lied or cheated or stole to get Howard Marlowe as your father. That’s who he is; that’s who you are. You got dealt a bad card when you were bitten—so use one of the better cards you have in your hand to make up for it.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - "Think of your forefathers and of your posterity."

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

Finders were keepers unless title was proven.