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
wind somewhere-else lost
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.
faith strong kings
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
shadow sun finches
Above all shadows rides the sun.
religious catholic revision
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
adventure stories ends
Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
revenge bores ifs
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
moving heart no-turning-back
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
son cities would-be
I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard’s pupil. But if doom denies this to me, then I will have naught: neither life diminished, nor love halved, nor honour abated.
good-morning morning shadow
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
fall two-towers
Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall
powerful book writing
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
inspirational life encouraging
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
heart use wit
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
soldier enemy fantasy-stories
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?