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
life nature world
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
dark world lord-of-the-ring
The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
fall mountain world
The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall...
dwarves world delving
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
voice world fields
Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
rivers water world
I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
our-world different earth
Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.
world happened untrue
Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?
evil world greater
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.
war world christianity
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
strong world prove
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.
men age world
And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.
evil broken world
For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
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.