English - Novelist | January 3, 1892 - September 2, 1973
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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