J. R. R. Tolkien

“at Rotterdam Holland attended 28 March 1958, in response to Professor Lambers summarizing approximately”

“I should say that, in addition to my tree”

“is based on rural England and not any other country in the world... The toponymy of The Shire ...is a”

“That story was the only thing I have ever done which cost me absolutely no pains at all. Usually I compose only with great difficulty and endless rewriting. I woke up one day (more than 2 years ago) with that odd thing virtually complete in my head. It took only a few hours to get down, and then copy out. About " Leaf by Niggle ", in a letter to Stanley Unwin”

“There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done. Letter”

“Nearly all marriages , even happy ones, are mistakes : in the sense that almost certainly (in a more Perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul”

“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”

“dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.”

“A Philologist on Esperanto”

“Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures . "A Secret Vice" (lecture, 1931) published in The Monsters And The Critics And Other Essays (1983), edited by Christopher Tolkien”