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Thorin didn't REALLY Apologize to Bilbo at the end of The Hobbit (hear the full episode on Exploring Tolkien)
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"The Hobbit, which has much more essential life in it, was quite independently conceived: I did not know as I began that it belonged [to Middle-earth]." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, 1951
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"Tolkien was, in the truest sense of the word, an enchanter." ~ Terry Pratchett, Washington Post, June 18, 2000
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"And in [Beowulf] I think we may observe not confusion, a half-hearted or a muddled business, but a fusion that has occurred at a given point of contact between old and new, a product of thought and deep emotion." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and The Critics
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"I know I never stood at the Cracks of Doom & watched Gollum die. But that faith in the distinction between my actions & that of characters is merely a story I tell myself. In fact, my memory of that is clearer & more powerful than my memory of my 5th birthday." ~Orson Scott Ca
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"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." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, 1951
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"Again, no screenwriter in his right mind would send the heroes into this timeless, quiet place at the end of the second act. But there was no way we could leave it out, so we just did the best we could." ~ Peter Jackson, on writing Lothlórien into The Fellowship of the Ring
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"[Beowulf] has more value and is a greater contribution to early mediaeval thought than the intolerant view that consigned all the heroes to the devil. We may be thankful that the product of so noble a temper was preserved by chance from the dragon of destruction." ~ JRR Tolkie
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"The criticism that the important matters are put on the outer edges misses this point of artistry, & indeed fails to see why the old things have in Beowulf such an appeal; it is the poet himself who made antiquity so appealing." ~ JRR Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters & The Criti
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"All I remember about the start of The Hobbit is correcting papers in the everlasting weariness of that annual task forced on impecunious academics. On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I did not & do not know why." ~ JRR Tolkien, June 1
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"I think there is a chance of it being published though it will be a massive book far too large to make any money for the publisher (let alone the author): it must run to 1200 pages." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, October 1948
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"The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history & geography." ~ J.R.R. Tolki
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"Some critics seem determined to represent me as a simple-minded adolescent, inspired with, say, a With-the-flag-to-Pretoria spirit, and wilfully distort what is said in my tale. I have not that spirit and it does not appear in the story." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, 1956
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"Indeed (if I dare yet venture on any criticism again) I should say that I think it gets in your way, as a writer. You read too much, and too much of that analytically. But then you are also a born critic. I am not. You are also a born reader." ~J.R.R. Tolkien to C.S. Lewis
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"I think criticism--however valid or intellectually engaging--tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (& probably fall off)." ~JRR Tolkien to CS Lew
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"We have none the less in Beowulf a method and structure that within the limits of the verse-kind approaches rather to sculpture or painting. It is a composition, not a tune." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and The Critics
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"If it is possible to compose fragments of verse in Quenya & Sindarin, those languages (& their relations one to another) must have reached a fairly high degree of organization--though of course, far from completeness, either in vocabulary, or in idiom." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, Aug 19
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"But it seems to me that in real life, as here, it is precisely against the darkness of the world that comedy arises, and is best when that is not hidden." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, July 1947
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True. Lord of the Rings was all about solving differences with mediation and discussion. My favorite part was when Elrond decided to allow Sauron to keep The One Ring in exchange for not attacking the Westfold! There was so much peace and harmony in his books! 🤪
Isi Breen@isaiah_bb
I imagine telling Tolkein, a vociferously anti-war individual whose experiences with industrial warfare and its corrosive effect on the human spirit led him to write his stories, that people who have never read his books named their company that kills people with robots after him
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"I continue to receive letters from poor Horus Engels about a German translation. He has sent me illustrations which are too 'Disnified': Bilbo with a dribbling nose, & Gandalf as a figure of vulgar fun rather than the Odinic wanderer that I think of." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, Dec 1
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"Tolkien gave us an epic, a new body of myth, a world of heroes & periods. He gave the beauty of magic back to us. It is a richer world because of him. But fortunately for us, his universe survives & will continue to survive for millions more to discover." ~ Lester del Rey, 197
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