John Ronald Reuel Tolkien citátov
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Dátum narodenia: 3. január 1892
Dátum úmrtia: 2. september 1973
Ďalšie mená: J. R. R. Tolkien, John Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien bol anglický spisovateľ, autor knihy The Hobbit a jej pokračovania The Lord of the Rings, jeho najznámejšej knihy.
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Citáty John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„Ten, kto nedokáže odhodiť poklad, keď je treba, je jeho otrokom.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Pán prsteňov
Pán prsteňov: Spoločenstvo prsteňa
„There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Letter (September 1944)
„For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, kniha The Monsters and the Critics
Context: The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history and geography, as our poet has done. Its defender is thus at a disadvantage: unless he is careful, and speaks in parables, he will kill what he is studying by vivisection, and he will be left with a formal or mechanical allegory, and what is more, probably with one that will not work. For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.
"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936), p. 14
„I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Context: It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.
Interview http://www.lordotrings.com/interview.asp with Dennis Gerrolt, first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Now Read On" (January 1971)
„The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, kniha On Fairy-Stories
On Fairy-Stories (1939), Context: The story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed.
„But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Context: Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
Letter to Michael Tolkien (March 1941)
