M Chandler

“Gandalf faced and suffered death; and came back or was sent back, as he says, with enhanced power. But though one may be in this reminded of the Gospels, it is not really the same thing at all. The Incarnation of God is an infinitely greater thing than anything I would dare to write. Here I am only concerned with Death as part of the nature, physical and spiritual, of Man, and with Hope without guarantees.

Letter 181
To Michael Straight [drafts]”
― Humphrey Carpenter, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. - Gandalf”
― JRR Tolkien

“... si buscas compañia, ten cuidado en cómo eliges. Y ten aún más cuidado con lo que dices, hasta a tus amigos más íntimos. El enemigo tiene muchos espías y muchas maneras de enterarse.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Yes, it is difficult," I answered. "But not impossibly difficult, or I would not waste my time here. I would say absurdly difficult.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales