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J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
J. R. R. Tolkien
English
Novelist
Born:
Jan 3
,
1892
Died:
Sep 2
,
1973
Could
He
Language
Like
World
You
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Courage
Unlikely
Places
Found
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Lost
Those
Wander
Who
Relatable
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Wait
Corner
Secret
Road
New
Still
May
Round
Gate
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Strong
Old
Lost
Those
Glitter
Reached
Wither
Does
Wander
Gold
Frost
Roots
Who
Deep
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Food
Song
World
Valued
Would
Would-Be
Above
More
Cheer
Gold
Us
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Says
He
Road
Farewell
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Life
Death
You
Wise
Live
Too
Out
See
Some
Give
Judgement
Deal
Very
Die
Ends
Cannot
Them
Then
Many
Even
Deserve
Eager
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. Tolkien
You
World
Out
About
Fence
Forever
Cannot
Wide
Wide World
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Man
Opportunity
Job
Men
Other
Those
Seek
Proper
Rate
Proper Study
Take
Study
Most
Unwilling
Least
Saints
Were
Fit
Any
Anything
Who
Even
Million
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Strength
You
Heart
Must
Wits
Been
Use
Therefore
Chosen
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. Tolkien
You
Half
Like
Know
Well
Than
Should
Less
Deserve
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Good
Words
Thought
Stupid
Too
Earthquake
Though
Invasion
Could
Like
Felt
Been
Dull
Times
Them
Might
If I Could
Should
Inhabitants
Dragons
Save
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. Tolkien
You
Live
Out
Calculations
Him
Does
Leave
Your
Near
Dragon
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. Tolkien
Ending
Fire
Snow
After
Even
Dragons
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
J. R. R. Tolkien
Life
Time
Thought
Wish
About
Take
He
Know
Short
Wants
Languages
Things
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Me
Pen
Hen
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Worlds
Safe
Untrue
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Mine
Tells
Talk
Friend
Shorthand
Then
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
Truth
Art
World
Myth
Reflect
Moral
Must
Solution
Religious
Primary
Contain
Known
Real
Error
Form
Real World
Explicit
Elements
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Could
Write
Since
Make
Make Up
Been
Up
Begin
Children
Languages
Many
Imaginary
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Language
Fall
Field
Think
Corner
Detailed
Seem
Rate
Uncharted
Exciting
Almost
Attention
Soon
Ideas
Pieces
Because
Up
Begin
Personal
Goes
Any
Middle
As Far As
Little
Far
Turns
Notions
English
Received
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