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“As he walked away, he discovered an odd thing: the Forest, of course, was a distant Forest, yet he could approach it, even enter it, without its losing that particular charm.” (Tales from the Perilous Realm Quotes)
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tales from the Perilous Realm
“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the contrary. The keener and the clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will make it.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tales from the Perilous Realm
“He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tales from the Perilous Realm
“It’s more comfortable standing still thinking of nothing.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tales from the Perilous Realm
“Macbeth is indeed a work by a playwright who ought, at least on this occasion, to have written a story, if he had the skill or patience for that art.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tales from the Perilous Realm
“Many of the most popular children’s stories have their roots in tales invented for particular children, and this casual, often serendipitous, approach produces a stream of ideas which are later refined into great literature. With Tolkien’s shorter stories and poems, I am even more aware of the presence of the author, and his children. There are elements and events that are so strikingly original that they could only arise as a result of observations and conversations ignited by two or more lively minds.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tales from the Perilous Realm
“The blind was down; but outside the moon rose up out of the sea, and laid the silver path across the waters that is the way to places at the edge of the world and beyond, for those that can walk on it.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tales from the Perilous Realm
“There was a merry passenger, a messenger, a mariner: he built a gilded gondola to wander in, and had in her a load of yellow oranges and porridge for his provender; he perfumed her with marjoram and cardamon and lavender.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tales from the Perilous Realm
