Occupation: Writer Birth: January 3, 1892 Death: September 2, 1973
It is plain that we were meant to go together..
You aren't nearly through this adventure yet..
And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many..
Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep;….
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree….
deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone..
Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner..
Mind your P's and Q's..
The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constru….
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill..
I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with th….
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the fr….
Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet? That's the only ans….
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold..
Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?.
Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Sh….
Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!.
There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark..
I don't know, and I would rather not guess..
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest..
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations..