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
want and-love eowyn
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
dragons trying fascination
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
men evil judging
Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.
moon path excited
Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
writing dark long-ago
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.
heart deeds may
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
fall mind stories
There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.
hurt peace war
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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!
war needs stills
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
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.
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.
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.