J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE, FRSL, known by his pen name J. R. R. Tolkien, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 January 1892
punishment
What punishments of God are not gifts?
nameless
Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?
keys treasure golden
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
adventure late supper
Adventures make one late for supper.
enemy woe trails
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!
beautiful stars queens
And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful.
song laughter land
Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.
courage flower night
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?
country evil magic
Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there.
enemy mountain ruins
I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.
pain dark evil
And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.
heart judging desire
But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning.
valleys jolly
O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell
dark lord-of-the-ring stills
Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.