“Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home?”

— 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.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.”

“The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”