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
strong wall evil
Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.
cynicism truth-is greater
The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
ends
Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.
wind drawing east
But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.
fire mind wheels
And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.
mean late
We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.
darkness dawn
The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.
strong world prove
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.
waiting battle want
I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.
want way
Where will wants not, a way opens.
wall hands dwelling
So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or on walls, or gathered into the museum at Michel Delving. The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort.
creative bird trying
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.
people earth today
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
lifetime figures cult
To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.