Category - J R R Tolkien

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J R R Tolkien

The original ‘Hobbit’ was never intended to have a sequel – Bilbo ‘remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long’: a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

– J R R Tolkien

J R R Tolkien

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

J R R Tolkien

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

J R R Tolkien

Middle English is an exciting field – almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces – as far as language goes, at any rate.

– J R R Tolkien

J R R Tolkien

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

J R R Tolkien

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 as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.

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J R R Tolkien

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

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J R R Tolkien

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

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J R R Tolkien

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

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J R R Tolkien

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

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J R R Tolkien

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

– J R R Tolkien

J R R Tolkien

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

– J R R Tolkien

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