Top Highlights

• J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes.
• I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
• 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.
• One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.