Back in from chores, headed out to hand dig a cistern with my son. He’s a much bigger Tolkien fan than I am, but this morning reading these with my coffee, I am inspired.
As the man said, it’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.
Anonymous
June 2, 2014 7:31 am
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Joseph E Fasciani
June 2, 2014 8:48 am
What a grand way to start my day! I thank you for taking the time & effort to list these powerful statements, and the the attractive formatting as well.
N8
June 2, 2014 10:10 am
A single dream is more powerful then a thousand realities. Makes me think of Ron Paul stating no armies can stop an idea who’s time has come. Ron did not originally coin that but still very powerful statement.
This is a great post admin thank you.
JT
June 2, 2014 10:42 am
Very nice. Thanks!
ottomatik
June 2, 2014 11:59 am
Much Appreciated
bb
June 2, 2014 12:34 pm
He is one of my favorite authors. I also like C S Lewis. Admin,this is why I still give you the benefit of doubt.
A. R. Wasem
June 2, 2014 12:51 pm
Tolkien will be in then “Canon”. BC-LR to all
Schnitz
June 2, 2014 2:04 pm
I am only thankful that we have a James Quinn to tell us the truth, and give us quotes like these!
TE
June 2, 2014 5:10 pm
Poignant reminders.
Sensetti
June 2, 2014 5:50 pm
Words to live by.
Zarathustra
June 2, 2014 5:52 pm
I never read Tolkien. Does that make me weird?
SSS
June 2, 2014 6:51 pm
“I never read Tolkien. Does that make me weird?”
—-Zara
Not as long as you read my timeless wisdom, Z. Here …….
“No matter where you go, there you are.”
Kinda takes your breath away, doesn’t it.
Eddie
June 2, 2014 7:55 pm
“I never read Tolkien. Does that make me weird?”
Nah, it’s the other stuff that makes you weird.
Lord of the Rings was just one of those cult books we all read when we were teenagers. We didn’t learn about Tolkien from a movie or TV. Rather it was one of those word-of-mouth things…you heard about it from a friend a couple of years older, or maybe your big brother. A cool literary masterpiece our English teachers knew absolutely nothing about.
A tale so epic in its proportions that you had to read the footnotes and the extensive appendix to keep up with all the characters and story lines. My high school best friend read it every night at bedtime for years. It was like the Bible to him.
They did a decent job with the movies. Not much need to read it anymore. Lately though I’ve read more about Tolkien, Lewis, Barfield, and that whole group of writers who called themselves the Inklings. Quite an interesting bunch.
A. R. Wasem
June 2, 2014 11:09 pm
Not reading any of Tolkien’s work doesn’t mean that one is weird – just entirely lacking in imagination and a sense of wonder. The movies were better than nothing – marginally – primarily because Peter Jackson left the scriptwriting to Phillipa Boyens and Fran Walsh ( a couple of twunts without a doubt) who clearly thought that their job was to “improve” Tolkien’s prose and ignore his poetry. The first “Hobbit” movie was passible+ but the second had another atrocious script (again by the “dynamic duo” of Boyens and Walsh) that has made an absolute hash of the pertinent chapters of the book. Not that there aren’t some good visual moments, but overall a (continued) disappointment. BC-LR to all.
Back in from chores, headed out to hand dig a cistern with my son. He’s a much bigger Tolkien fan than I am, but this morning reading these with my coffee, I am inspired.
As the man said, it’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.
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What a grand way to start my day! I thank you for taking the time & effort to list these powerful statements, and the the attractive formatting as well.
A single dream is more powerful then a thousand realities. Makes me think of Ron Paul stating no armies can stop an idea who’s time has come. Ron did not originally coin that but still very powerful statement.
This is a great post admin thank you.
Very nice. Thanks!
Much Appreciated
He is one of my favorite authors. I also like C S Lewis. Admin,this is why I still give you the benefit of doubt.
Tolkien will be in then “Canon”. BC-LR to all
I am only thankful that we have a James Quinn to tell us the truth, and give us quotes like these!
Poignant reminders.
Words to live by.
I never read Tolkien. Does that make me weird?
“I never read Tolkien. Does that make me weird?”
—-Zara
Not as long as you read my timeless wisdom, Z. Here …….
“No matter where you go, there you are.”
Kinda takes your breath away, doesn’t it.
“I never read Tolkien. Does that make me weird?”
Nah, it’s the other stuff that makes you weird.
Lord of the Rings was just one of those cult books we all read when we were teenagers. We didn’t learn about Tolkien from a movie or TV. Rather it was one of those word-of-mouth things…you heard about it from a friend a couple of years older, or maybe your big brother. A cool literary masterpiece our English teachers knew absolutely nothing about.
A tale so epic in its proportions that you had to read the footnotes and the extensive appendix to keep up with all the characters and story lines. My high school best friend read it every night at bedtime for years. It was like the Bible to him.
They did a decent job with the movies. Not much need to read it anymore. Lately though I’ve read more about Tolkien, Lewis, Barfield, and that whole group of writers who called themselves the Inklings. Quite an interesting bunch.
Not reading any of Tolkien’s work doesn’t mean that one is weird – just entirely lacking in imagination and a sense of wonder. The movies were better than nothing – marginally – primarily because Peter Jackson left the scriptwriting to Phillipa Boyens and Fran Walsh ( a couple of twunts without a doubt) who clearly thought that their job was to “improve” Tolkien’s prose and ignore his poetry. The first “Hobbit” movie was passible+ but the second had another atrocious script (again by the “dynamic duo” of Boyens and Walsh) that has made an absolute hash of the pertinent chapters of the book. Not that there aren’t some good visual moments, but overall a (continued) disappointment. BC-LR to all.