J. R. R. Tolkien

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, FRSL, known by his pen name J. R. R. Tolkien, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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.

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.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

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.

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