There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For...
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J.r.r. Tolkien
What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.
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Patricia Briggs
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>(quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world...
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J.r.r. Tolkien
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should...
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J.r.r. Tolkien
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls...
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Philip Pullman
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To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail."- Rayner Unwin
