J.R.R. Tolkien

English writer and philologist (1892–1973)

· 1892 - 1973 · 283 kata bijak

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

J.R.R. Tolkien

Harapan

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

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Kebahagiaan

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

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Kehidupan

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

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Harapan

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

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Motivasi

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

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Motivasi

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 (and probably fall off).

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Motivasi

I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.

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Motivasi

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

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Humor

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

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Humor

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

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Nasihat

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

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Nasihat

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

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Kejujuran

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

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Kejujuran

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

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Doa

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.

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Nasihat

Never laugh at live dragons.

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Nasihat

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

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Nasihat

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

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Nasihat

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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Nasihat

Wise men speak only of what they know

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