John Ronald Reuel Tolkien citáty
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.
Diela
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
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, kniha On Fairy-Stories
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
Kontext: I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it.
No. 247: To Colonel Worskett (20 September 1963)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
Tolkien in Oxford (1968) http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/12237.shtml, a BBC 2 television documentary (at 21:49)
Letter (September 1944)
„That story was the only thing I have ever done which cost me absolutely no pains at all.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, kniha Leaf by Niggle
About "Leaf by Niggle", in a letter to Stanley Unwin (18 March 1945)
Kontext: That story was the only thing I have ever done which cost me absolutely no pains at all. Usually I compose only with great difficulty and endless rewriting. I woke up one day (more than 2 years ago) with that odd thing virtually complete in my head. It took only a few hours to get down, and then copy out.
„The Evangelium has not abrogated legends; it has hallowed them, especially the "happy ending."“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, kniha On Fairy-Stories
The Christian has still to work, with mind as well as body, to suffer, hope, and die; but he may now perceive that all his bents and faculties have a purpose, which can be redeemed. So great is the bounty with which he has been treated that he may now, perhaps, fairly dare to guess that in Fantasy he may actually assist in the effoliation and multiple enrichment of creation. All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and unlike the forms that we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know.
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
„The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned.“
No. 102: From a letter to his son Christopher Tolkien (9 August, 1945)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
Kontext: The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope "this will ensure peace". But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, kniha On Fairy-Stories
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
Kontext: The Evangelium has not abrogated legends; it has hallowed them, especially the "happy ending." The Christian has still to work, with mind as well as body, to suffer, hope, and die; but he may now perceive that all his bents and faculties have a purpose, which can be redeemed. So great is the bounty with which he has been treated that he may now, perhaps, fairly dare to guess that in Fantasy he may actually assist in the effoliation and multiple enrichment of creation. All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and unlike the forms that we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know.
