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Rather Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 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 he…
- That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands.…
- For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as…
- I don't know, and I would rather not guess.
- 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…
- The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if…
- The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad…
- I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR…
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