J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring. Houghton Mifflin, 1994, p. 260.
The bipartisan Presidential Commission had unanimously made 41 recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks. While the Bush Administration and Congress implemented a few many of the more critical ones were left unaddressed. The commission on its final day issued a report card giving failing grades to both the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress.
Attila the Hun. If countries formed alliances against him, he took it as a sign of weakness and allies were cowards because they were afraid to fight alone.
This was a realistic assessment of the power of aircraft carrier-based warplanes as had been demonstrated at Pearl Harbor.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
