{"quotes":[{"text":"Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["frodo","inspirational","lord-of-the-rings","middle-earth","motivational","tolkien"],"id":7382,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["frodo","lord-of-the-rings","middle-earth","sam","tolkien","true-love"],"id":9122,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Tolkien did admit that, 'As a guide, I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving.' In other words ~ he wrote about what interested him ~ and despite his protestation of including anything allegorical into his tale, Catholic history and mystic prophecy obviously received its fair share of attention ...","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic","catholic-","catholic-prophecies","catholicism","catholics","fantasy","fantasy-books","history","inspiration","jrr-tolkien","lord-of-the-rings","mysticism","prophecies","prophecy","prophecy-in-fiction","tolkien","writing","writing-books"],"id":14601,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"No parent should have to bury their child.","author":"Theoden","tags":["lord-of-the-rings","love","pain"],"id":15725,"author_id":"Theoden"},{"text":"Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["language","lord-of-the-rings","worldbuilding"],"id":31735,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["humour","lord-of-the-rings","politics"],"id":34865,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["beggining","deep","dwarves","gandalf","gimli","lord-of-the-rings","nameless-things","world"],"id":42037,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["goodness","hope","lord-of-the-rings"],"id":42637,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"... The reader is probably wondering that if Tolkien did indeed fashion two of his heroic characters from Catholic prophecies, what about the evil protagonists? Were any of them inspired by these little-known revelations concerning future times? The answer is yes, but to discover the links between the myth and the prophecies, we must venture not only into the realm of unnerving revelations, but also into the murky world of secret sects, dark plots, occult signs, bloody revolutions and conspiracy theories ~ we must probe deep into the burning Eye of Sauron.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["-on-","catholic","catholic-","catholic-prophecies","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","evil-characters","eye-of-sauron","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","future-times","history","jrr-tolkien","lord-of-the-rings","prophecies","sauron","sects","sources-of-inspiration","tolkien","writing-books"],"id":64000,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["j-r-r-tolkien","lord-of-the-rings","poem"],"id":73938,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}