I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.


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DAVID A. R. WHITE
If you can make a living doing what you love, that is a blessing.
DAVID A. R. WHITE
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write un...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religio...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabi...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has go...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN