Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. - J.R.R. Tolkien
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. - J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. - J.R.R. Tolkien
It? a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don? keep your feet, there? no knowing where you might be swept off to. - J.R.R. Tolkien
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. - 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
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. - J.R.R. Tolkien
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you?e done since you left home. - J.R.R. Tolkien
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
There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go. - J.R.R. Tolkien
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