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
grateful eye imagination
I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears.
roots tree mountain
What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.
adventure late supper
Adventures make one late for supper.
nameless
Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?
punishment
What punishments of God are not gifts?
art way belief
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
men age towers
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
summer morning nature
I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.
real evil
You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.
government important bankers
The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.
art thinking fantasy
Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.
long-ago long certain
Long ago certain truths were discovered... And must always reappear.
kings fantasy-novels roots
Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
quests said realms
The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest