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Personal Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of…
- If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.
- Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope…
- Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to…
- Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any…
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