I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren..

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of….

It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of h….

Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it o….

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small rea….

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soa….

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end..

Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not t….

Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay..

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shor….

Don't tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them..

If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all appearance th….

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may r….

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you..

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom..

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will fin….

On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel... Very tall they were, and….

I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, ….

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised..

The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart..

Courage is found in unlikely places..