Occupation: Writer Birth: January 3, 1892 Death: September 2, 1973
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-p….
And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?.
For nothing is evil in the beginning..
Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the ….
I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail….
Then, Éowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and maidens fairer still; b….
Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes..
Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back..
He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night….
Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish..
Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards..
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship..
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew..
Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?.
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the somet….
A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night..
We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!.
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager ….
The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall..
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be….
The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and st….