I'm going on an adventure!
J.R.R. TolkienAdventures only make you late for dinner.
J.R.R. TolkienFairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.
J.R.R. TolkienFantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: christianity fantasy j-r-r-tolkien fiction-writing
And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: romance fantasy faramir eowyn
A thousand years this city has stood, now at the whim of a madman it will fall.
J.R.R. TolkienHe found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: autumn wanderlust
It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: gandalf chapter-1 precious ring lord-of-the-rings bilbo book-1
the 'fairy-story' is really an adult genre, and one for which a starving audience exists.
J.R.R. TolkienAnd as the captains gazed south to the Land of Mordor, it seemed to them that, black against the pall of cloud, there rose a huge shape of shadow, impenetrable, lightning-crowned, filling all the sky. Enormous it reared above the world, and stretched out towards them a vast threatening hand, terrible but impotent: for even as it leaned over them, a great wind took it, and it was all blown away, and passed; and then a hush fell.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: lord-of-the-rings sauron
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