Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien

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If someone should happen across an actual print page of The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 180 perhaps they could replace the wording "Novial, &c &c are dead, far" with some text that makes sense. I hardly think that &c and &c aren't actually some other word, perhaps two other artificial languages?

Response: "&c" is an archaic method of writing "et cetera". There is no mistake. --Mindovamatter 04:02, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • I'm adding the checkcopyright tag below in respect of "Leaf by Niggle", of which we're currently quoting at least 20%. The quotes from "English and Welsh" could do with shortening as well. I'll deal with this in the next few days and remove the tag. --Antiquary 19:36, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Misattributions[edit]

"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." A Tolkienist article corrects this. This appears to be a modernized, shortened version of a Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities." --Chad Schultz (talk) 07:24, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

One Quote to source[edit]

"It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life." Cheers to whoever reads this. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 06:29, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Quote: I am a wolf hat follows the sun and I will catch him air day be done Hyrum1811 (talk) 18:31, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My fatherfather and my veiw on c.s lewis and tolken[edit]

J.RR Tolkien is one of me and my fathers hero,s And what I love so much about him is that he said . Greek and Norse mythology points to the real mythology god and Jesus Christ he after his friend c.s lewis his mother died and he quit religon he thought it was just as fake as mythology then he met Tolkien And Tolkien talked to him about his faith he said he had none but Then they talked and Tolkien convinced him to give it a try so they did the inklings were they wrote all there plays and books and sent personal messages to each other it got posted into a book and that is . And the membered were owing barfeild Charles Williams Hugo dyson warnie lewis Adam fox j.RR Tolkien nevilleclochill c.s lewis Chris Tolkien and others. And if you could respond to me about j..RR Tolkien that would be great Hyrum1811 (talk) 18:28, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]