Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.

The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp….

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!.

It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart..

Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!.

But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will re….

Don't go where I can't follow!.

There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course aft….

Tears unnumbered ye shall shed..

Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose….

Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!.

And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and hea….

There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be….

A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them,….

A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment,….

I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a green grea….

Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebro….

He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said..

As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face and smiled; but….

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars..