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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 3rd, 1892

Died: September 2nd, 1973

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