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
hands storm defence
Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.
moving untold-stories stories
A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.
past walks
I will not walk backward in life.
country drama hands
I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.
silence sticks speak
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
doe handsome handsomeness
Handsome is as handsome does
journey path lord-of-the-ring
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
inspirational life wise
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
death wish needs
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
storm tides turns
We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.
self heroism preservation
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
life wise wisdom
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
wall grief giving
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.
home done lucky
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.