J. r. r. tolkien

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

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.

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had...

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

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...

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own...