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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

~J. R. R. Tolkien

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I don't like allegories.

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It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 3rd, 1892

Died: September 2nd, 1973

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