I will not walk backward in life.

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.

If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.