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J. R. R. Tolkien

English Novelist

Born: Jan 3, 1892

Died: Sep 2, 1973

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Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster Emily Bronte Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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