Tag: J. R. R. Tolkien
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.
J. R. R. Tolkien