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“I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.”

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J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer, best known for his fantasy literature, most notably The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. His works have had a profound impact on modern fantasy literature. more

“If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.”

“Slight changes simply make a blur.”

Blur

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“I'd got hobbits on my hands hadn't I?”

Hands

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.”

People Thinking World Kind Made Earth Mistake Fiction Middle This World Particular Planets Ocean Science Fiction Old Fashioned Middle Earth

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.”

Humanity Clay

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.”

People Way Made Courses Imagination Size Jew Latent Dwarves Rustic

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.”

Writing Stories Wanted Recipes Laundry

Author:Thomas Keller

“I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about.”

Knows Should Firsts Said Wanted Sound Saws Style Should Have Coal Truck Welsh

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.”

Has Beens Influence Finnish

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.”

Years Kind Persons Age Known Periods Seventies

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

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