They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters’. I have indeed written many. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
I wish life was not so short,’ he thought. ‘Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.’ J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
