"I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like …"

"I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupati…"

"I wept when I wrote that."

"There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nati…"

"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more Perfect world, or …"

""The Shire" is based on rural England and not any other country in the world... The toponymy of The Shire...is a "par…"

"The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is …"

"That story was the only thing I have ever done which cost me absolutely no pains at all. Usually I compose only with …"

"My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement woul…"

"I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones..."