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The wonder of Christmas resounds for one reason... Tolkien made it clear in his poem, "Noel".
"Yet [Beowulf] is in fact written in a language that after many centuries has still essential kinship with our own, it was made in this land, and for those who are native to that tongue and land, it must ever call with a profound appeal--until the dragon comes." ~ J.R.R. Tolkie
"This university business of earning one's living by teaching, delivery philological lectures, and daily attendance at 'boards' and other talk-meetings, interferes sadly with serious work." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien in a Letter to Hugh Brogan - October 31, 1948
"But for a long time Faramir walked alone in the garden, and now his glance strayed rather to the house than to the eastward walls." ~ The Return of the King
"By and large, our cultures & our society are resilient enough to put up with any sort of nonsense. But if Tolkien has a message, it's, 'Sometimes you've got to stand up & fight for what you believe in.' He knew what he was fighting for in World War I." ~ John Rhys-Davies (
Peter Jackson: "Cut! What are you two doing?! Those lines aren't in the script!" ... Hobbit #1 (Marcus) : "They're in the book." ~ Foxtrot Comic Strip, February 18, 2000
First Stroke of Lightning at Helm's Deep - Michael Kaluta
JRR Tolkien is publishing more books 50 years after his death than most authors do in a lifetime (*cough* George RR Martin *cough*). Here's another book to be published culled from his extensive unpublished notes: The Bovadium Fragments.
"The appalling destruction & misery of this of this war mount hourly: destruction of what should be (indeed is) the common wealth of Europe, & the world, if mankind were not so besotted, wealth the loss of which will affect us all, victors or not." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, January 194
"To walk in Time, perhaps, as men walk on long roads... to behold ancient men walking, and to hear their languages as they spoke them, in the days before the days, when tongues of forgotten lineage were heard in kingdoms long fallen by the shores of the Atlantic. ~ J.R.R. Tolkie
"[Tolkien] also had a great pessimism, or a melancholy about him and a lack of confidence in mankind. Which is really part of what he was venting about. He was aware of & frustrated with how flawed we are. He created the Elvish race as his perfect ideal beings." ~ Peter Jackson