Creative Quotations from J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

Creative Quotations from . . .

J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892-1973) born on Jan 03

English "novelist, scholar". "He achieved fame for his richly inventive epic trilogy "The Lord of the Rings," 1954-55."

"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.""

""His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.""

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	""The Fellowship of the Ring," Houghton Mifflin 54"
R:	"Referring to The Last Homely House, "The Hobbit.""
A:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N:	"Acknowledging critics who said his writing was difficult to understand; in NY "Times," 3 Mar 1957."
K:	"The dwarf Gimli, in "The Fellowship of the Ring," pt. 1, ch. 3, The Lord of the Rings, bk. 2 of trilogy, 1954."