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

Persahabatan

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

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Persahabatan

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

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Persahabatan

At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shyly. He stroked it gently and then he blushed and turned hastily away.

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Perjuangan

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

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Perjuangan

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

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Perjuangan

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

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Perjuangan

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.

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Mimpi

The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

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Kehidupan

Short cuts make long delays.

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Kehidupan

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.

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Kreativitas

They made for his noise far quicker than he had expected. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever like being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course, is insulting to anybody.

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Kepemimpinan

the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

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Sukses

We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,

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Cinta

As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light.

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Keluarga

The sons of Dior and Nimloth were Elured and Elurin; and a daughter also was born to them, and she was named Elwing, which is Star-spray, for she was born on a night of stars, whose light glittered in the spray of the waterfall of Lanthir Lamath beside her father's house.

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Kehidupan

Nightingales sang about her wherever she went.

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Alam

Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful.

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Kepemimpinan

He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself.

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Kepemimpinan

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

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Pendidikan

A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.

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