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- I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I…
- 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…
- I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day.
- One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness,…
- The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it…
- Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright…
- One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface…
- There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of…
- Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There…
- And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of…
- I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.
- Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had…
- We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.
- End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
- PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we…
- True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
- Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any…
- The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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