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
fantasy-stories glory partisans
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory
desire bows wells
I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.
adventure water trying
We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.
numbers people world
If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.
years two half
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
eden long exile
We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
long rich rage
His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.
morning noise fear-nothing
Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
crush lost curse
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
hurt peace war
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
revenge bores ifs
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
war needs stills
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
inspirational life travel
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
legs may knees
We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.