J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

  

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• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

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• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

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• As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

  

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• It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

  

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• I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

  

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• The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

  

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• What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

  

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• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

  

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• Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

  

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• A film of my life would never happen!

  

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• My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.

  

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• The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Power
  • Imagination
  • Courage