John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
Success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.
—Jill Shalvis in The Sweetest Thing