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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE FRSL (/ˈtɒlkiːn/;[a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) 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.

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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?

Enemy, Escapist, Fantasy Stories, Imprisoned, Soldier

Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them.

Needs, Gimli, Meet, Hurry, Things

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

Men, Political Opinions, Bombs, Political, Meaning, Lean

Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!

Filth, Let, Let Him Go, Samwise Gamgee, Touch

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Blended, Cheer, Children, Know, Song, Valued

There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. 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. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.

Change, Deep Water, Men, Sea, Seek

A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.

Beautiful, Caught, Gold, Hair, House, Lit

There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.

Stupid, Elephants, Magic, Like, Hear

I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings , the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty ) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.

Details, Explanation, Say, Short, Tree, War

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

Adventure, Looking, Movie Love, Share

What punishments of God are not gifts?

Gifts, God, Punishment, Punishments

My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.

Gamgee, Sam, Soldier, Superior, Superiors, War

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

Language, Languages, Modern, People, Remember, Wrote

Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

Gandalf, Might, Say, Should Have, White

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.

Changed, Evil, Judging, Men, Said

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

Inspirational, Life, Moon, Travel, Under, Wings

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

Dream, Elvishly, Gondor, Incredibly, Lovely, Venice

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.

Age, Days, Passed, Rings, Song, Stories

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

Great Hobbit, Ifs, Like, Looking, Nothing, Want

We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

Knees, Left, Legs, May, Stand

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