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  1. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    The bigger things get the smaller and duller or flatter the globe gets. It is getting to be all one blasted little provincial suburb. When they have introduced American sanitation, morale-pep, feminism, and mass production throughout the Near East, Middle East, Far East, U.S.S.R., the Pampas, el Gran Chaco, the Danubian Basin, Equatorial Africa, Hirther Further and Inner Mumbo-land, Gondhwannaland, Lhasas, and the villages of darkest Berkshire, how happy we shall be . At any rate it out to cut down travel. There will be nowhere to go. So people will {I opine} go all the faster. {leter 53}
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  2. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift of glee which God gave him.
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  3. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.
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  4. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by 'arisch'. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects.
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  5. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of tyranny and intolerance!
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  6. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.
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  7. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect 'history' to be anything but a 'long defeat' - though it contains {and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly} some samples or glimpses of final victory. {Letter #195}"
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  8. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. {And, of course, the more 'life' a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the more nearly will it be acceptable just as a story.}
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  9. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.
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  10. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    I wrote The Lord of the Rings because I wished 'to try my hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them.
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  11. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    ... I regard the tale of Arwen and Aragorn as the most important of the Appendices {in Lord of The Rings}; it is part of the essential story, and is only placed so, because it could not be worked into the main narrative without destroying its structure ...{From letter 181}
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  12. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
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