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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Quotes

Real soul-mate is the one you are married to

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941

Was born on: 03.01.1892
About Author: English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor

A day may come

Aragorn: A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, 1954

Hobbits

Gandalf: Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all that there is to know about them in a month, and yet after a hundred years, they can still surprise you.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

Those without swords

Ewoyn: Those without swords can still die upon them

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 1954

Shadow of war

One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.

The Lord of the Rings. Preface to the Second Edition.

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