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).

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Kebaikan

It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

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Kebaikan

please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

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Kehidupan

it is horrible being all alone.

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Cinta

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

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Kreativitas

And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of Ilúvatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came.

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Kehidupan

But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.

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Kehidupan

Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?""Po-ta-toes!" said Sam.

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Humor

When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.

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Pendidikan

Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

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Kreativitas

Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

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Kreativitas

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

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Perjuangan

A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unnaturally making justice unlawful, will drive them rather to rebellion against all law.

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Kehidupan

But perhaps you could call her perilous because she's so strong in herself. You , you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock, or drown yourself, like a Hobbit in a river, but neither rock nor river would be to blame.

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Kehidupan

But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.

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Pendidikan

His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.

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Kepemimpinan

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories

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Kehidupan

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

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Perjuangan

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

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Alam

I am at home among trees.

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Harapan

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

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