J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'”

“If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.”

“I don't like allegories.”

“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.”

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

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

“In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.”