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
beautiful sleep thrill
I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.
anger together might
If we all got angry together something might be done.
book beer done
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
land pitfalls dungeons
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.
strong horse wind
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.
writing mean dark
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.
war world christianity
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
fall sleep swings
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!
summer wise strong
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.
flower twilight fire
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
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.