J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes


There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.


Citations

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Two Towers. Houghton Mifflin, 1994, p. 268.

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J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Born: January 3, 1892
  • Died: September 2, 1973
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Novelist

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.