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
adventure want
Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
victory words-of-hope spoken-word
I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
stars sea fairy-stories
The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.
dream fall autumn
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
adventure going-on-an-adventure
I'm going on an adventure!
flower evil tree
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
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!
smell allegory dislike
I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.
dull favour proportion
I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.
thinking long-ago fire
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.
strength weapons firsts
Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.
sky light shadow
Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch
patience
See your road through.
war discovery esperanto
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends...