Tolkien Quotes

"I think if a jinn came and gave me a wish -- what would you really like? -- I should reply: Nothing. Go away!"

"I have done some touches to my nonsense fairy language...it does seem such a mad hobby!"

"I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size...I like gardens, trees...I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unregrigerated), but detest French cooking..."

"My friends at school...called me John, or occasionally...J.R2."

"When is Vol. III [Return of the King] likely now to appear? I shall be murdered if something does not happen soon."

"To ask if the Orcs ’are’ Communists is to me as sensible as asking if Communists are Orcs."

"Do you think Shelob is a good name for a monstrous spider creature?...it seems to be quite noisome..."

"I have always found cricket a bore: chiefly, though, because I was not good at it."

"Remember your guardian angel. Not a plump lady with swan-wings!"

"I met the Lúthien Tinúviel of my own personal ’romance’ with her long dark hair, fair face and starry eyes, and beautiful voice..."

"I do not dislike spiders particulary, and have no urge to kill them. I usually rescue those whom I find in the bath!"

Reflection

任何人都會寫書，任何人也會創作，但是有多少的作者還能夠*同時*擁有專業的語言知識與深厚的文學背景，*同時*也了解多種現代與古老的語言，*並且*還能創造出多種新的語言(而且還不是亂編的)，*同時*也能寫出難度極高的美麗詩句(更將語言的藝術發展到最高境界)，*而且*自己還是一位相當有智慧的人，*而且*自己還會提筆繪畫腦海裡的影像?

目前為止能符合這種高標準規格的人大概只有一位：


J.R.R. Tolkien