JRR Tolkien, whose full name is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and died on September 2, 1973, in Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. He was a British writer, poet, and academic, best known for his fantasy novels “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. After moving to England as a child, he served in World War I and later became a professor of Anglo-Saxon language and literature at Oxford, where he wrote his most famous works. His books have been widely translated and have had a major influence on fantasy literature. He is regarded as one of the greatest fantasy writers of all time.
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JRR Tolkien Quotes
- Short cuts make long delays.
- All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
- The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
- It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.
- Courage is found in unlikely places.
- Darkness must pass / A new day will come / And when the sun shines / It will shine out the clearer.
- I wish life was not so short, he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
- Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
- Not all those who wander are lost.
- Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world.
- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
