That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And….

Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed ….

What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what ….

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have su….

They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (es….

And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful….

I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are ….

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds..

The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn g….

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which th….

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom..

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and l….

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is….

I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now..

Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!.

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come..

The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world..

Farewell! I go to find the Sun!.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation..

But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war).