Ancient history Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future”

— Morris West

“All those tales were told right here, one after the next, each informing the one that came after. History isn't a tale told once,…

— Victor LaValle

“It is a tale that is told, from which we may draw the knowledge and comprehension needed for the future. The disproportion between the…

— Winston Churchill

“It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.”

— Oscar Wilde

“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over…

— Aeschylus

“It was a war about fear, he thought, not figures on the ground. It was a war of narrative, a story of a war,…

— Lavie Tidhar

“There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea, 'Tell us…

— Pamela Brown

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“In the entire history of the universe, there are many tales worth telling. ”

— Matthew Kadish

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to…

— Peter Jackson

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for…

— J. R. R. Tolkien