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Writing 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…
- 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…
- Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made…
- The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work…
- 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,…
- Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause…
- grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read,…
- And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came…
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