Джон Рональд Руэл Толкин цитаты страница 3

„Верно подобранное имя доставляет мне большое удовольствие. Когда я пишу, я всегда начинаю с имени. Вначале имя — потом история, а не наоборот.“

„Лингвистические структуры всегда действовали на меня, как музыка или цвет.“

„Что касается разного рода подтекста, это не входило в намерения автора. Книга не является ни аллегорической, ни тематической.
Многое можно додумать, согласно вкусам любителей аллегорий или ссылок на реальную действительность. Но я испытываю и всегда испытывал искреннюю неприязнь к аллегории во всех проявлениях — с тех самых пор, как стал достаточно стар и зануден, чтобы её замечать. Я куда больше люблю историю, настоящую или выдуманную, которая бы различным образом взаимодействовала с опытом читателя.“

„Значение мифа нелегко закрепить на бумаге аналитическими рассуждениями.“

Предисловие к «Властелину Колец»

“My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.”

Джон Рональд Руэл Толкин: Цитаты на английском языке

“And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.”

"A Philologist on Esperanto" in The British Esperantist (May 1932).
Years later, in a 1956 letter (quoted more extensively below) he stated that Esperanto and other constructed languages were "dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends."

“"I think we shall have to give the region a name. What do you propose?"
"The Porter settled that some time ago," said the Second Voice. "Train for Niggle's Parish in the bay."”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien книга On Fairy-Stories

On Fairy-Stories (1939)

“It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien книга Leaf by Niggle

Leaf by Niggle (1945)

“Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.”

No. 163: On his discovery of Finnish language, in a letter to W. H. Auden (1955)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)

“Nothing has astonished me more (and I think my publishers) than the welcome given to The Lord of the Rings.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien книга A Secret Vice

"A Secret Vice" (lecture, 1931) published in The Monsters And The Critics And Other Essays (1983), edited by Christopher Tolkien

“I liked him better than all the other characters, and much more so than Frodo.”

But it is, of course, a constant source of consolation and pleasure to me. And, I may say, a piece of singular good fortune, much envied by some of my contemporaries. Wonderful people still buy the book, and to a man 'retired' that is both grateful and comforting.
No. 165: To Houghton Mifflin Co. (30 June, 1955); also quoted in 'Tolkien on Tolkien' in Diplomat magazine (October 1966).
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)

“I think we shall have to give the region a name. What do you propose?”

Speaking of Gollum. From J. R. R. Tolkien: An Audio Portrait, BBC Radio Collection (2001), ISBN 0-563-53692-6. CD 1, track 17.

“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) … the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien книга Leaf by Niggle

"The Porter settled that some time ago," said the Second Voice. "Train for Niggle's Parish in the bay."
Leaf by Niggle (1945)

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”

Источник: The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981), No. 52: To his son Christopher Tolkien (29 November, 1943)

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien The Lord of the Rings

Источник: The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring

“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien книга The Fellowship of the Ring

Источник: The Fellowship of the Ring, Poem Riddle of Strider

“Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight? For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time.”

Контексте: Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

“If we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later.”

Контексте: Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight? A man may do both, said Aragorn. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

“But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.”

Контексте: 'Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.

“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

“You step onto the road and if you don’t keep your feet, then there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

Incorrectly attributed to Tolkien. It is a line from the Hobbit movie that did not appear in the books.

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”