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Real Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more…
- Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that…
- You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.
- If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought,…
- He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.
- But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.
- 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…
- It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward…
- And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale…
- My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell…
- 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…
- For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the…
- Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The…
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