“The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories, 1939

About J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 – 1973

English author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings".

“Never laugh at live dragons.”

“Trees are not 'trees', until so named and seen.”

“The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”