J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mord or where the Shadows lie.

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, it may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)… The most improper job of any man is bossing other men.