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Story 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…
- The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is…
- I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a…
- 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…
- If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
- True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .
- I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the…
- It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story,…
- Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant…
- Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
- I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic…
- True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
- This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.
- But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly.…
- Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come…
- There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we…
- The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it…
- 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 realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless…
- His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant…
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