He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: lord-of-the-rings sam
I would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a bit higher off the ground.
EomerStichwörter: lord-of-the-rings
You would die before your stroke fell!
LegolasStichwörter: lord-of-the-rings
The road goes ever on and on
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: lord-of-the-rings
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .
. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings
Stichwörter: death story storytelling tolkien lotr life-and-death lord-of-the-rings j-r-r-tolkien narrative life-story the-hobbit the-silmarillion story-teller
It is not possible even at great length to “pot” The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two … It was begun in 1937, and every part has been written many times. Hardly a word in its 600,000 or more has been unconsidered. And the placing, size, style, and contribution to the whole of the features, incidents, and chapters has been laboriously pondered. I do not say this in recommendation. It is, I feel, only too likely that I am deluded, lost in a web of vain imaginings of not much value to others – in spite of the fact that a few readers have found it good, on the whole. What I intend to say is this: I cannot substantially alter the thing. I have finished it, is “off my mind”: the labour has been colossal: and it must stand or fall, practically as it is.
[1951]
Stichwörter: writing lord-of-the-rings creative labour 1937
I did not buy a book called Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson, which has the temerity to compare itself, on the front cover, to 'Tolkien at his best.' The back cover attributes the quote to the Washington Post, a newspaper whose quotations will always damn a book for me from now on. How dare they? And how dare the publishers? It isn't a comparison anyone could make, except to say 'Compared to Tolkien at his best, this is dross.' I mean you could say that even about really brilliant books like A Wizard of Earthsea. I expect Lord Foul's Bane (horrible title, sounds like a Conan book) is more like Tolkien at his worst, which would be the beginning of The Simarillion.
The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect.
Stichwörter: tolkien lord-of-the-rings middle-earth the-silmarillion the-lord-of-the-rings
For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: fantasy lord-of-the-rings
When evening in the Shire was grey
his footsteps on the Hill were heard;
before the dawn he went away
on journey long without a word.
From Wilderland to Western shore,
from northern waste to southern hill,
through dragon-lair and hidden door
and darkling woods he walked at will.
With Dwarf and Hobbit, Elves and Men,
with mortal and immortal folk,
with bird on bough and beast in den,
in their own secret tongues he spoke.
A deadly sword, a healing hand,
a back that bent beneath its load;
a trumpet-voice, a burning brand,
a weary pilgrim on the road.
A lord of wisdom throned he sat,
swift in anger, quick to laugh;
an old man in a battered hat
who leaned upon a thorny staff.
He stood upon the bridge alone
and Fire and Shadow both defied;
his staff was broken on the stone,
in Khazad-dûm his wisdom died.
Stichwörter: gandalf lament lord-of-the-rings j-r-r-tolkien frodo the-fellowship-of-the-ring jrr-tolkien
It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: lord-of-the-rings j-r-r-tolkien frodo-baggins samwise-gamgee return-of-the-king
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