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J. R. R. Tolkien

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).

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Quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

His rage passes description—the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk who have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

Courage is found in unlikely places.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

—J. R. R. Tolkien