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 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.
wisdom silence words-of-wisdom
Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words.
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
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...
hatred bones apartheid
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones...
war tree would-be
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings , the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty ) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story...
advice esperanto would-be
My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.
war pleasure delicate
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.