Frases célebres de John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Frases y Citas
“No todo oro reluce, ni toda la gente errante anda perdida.”
aunque según la traducción mal realizada la frase es «No todo lo que reluce es oro, ni toda la gente errante anda perdida». Al conocimiento popular se trasladó un posible error de traducción.
Fuente: (SdlA I, 10)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: Frases en inglés
“In such 'fantasy', as it is called, new form is made; Faerie begins; Man becomes a sub-creator.”
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
No. 165: To Houghton Mifflin Co. (30 June, 1955); also quoted in 'Tolkien on Tolkien' in Diplomat magazine (October 1966).
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
Letter to his publisher (31 July 1947); published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), Letter 109
Letter to Deborah Webster (25 October 1958)
“I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones…”
Valedictory address to the University of Oxford (1959)
"Alboin Errol", in The Lost Road (1987). Compare this with "The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne" by Geoffrey Chaucer
One of two draft letters (25 July, 1938) written for Stanley Unwin to select as a response to his German publishers inquiry about his ancestry. The other letter refused to answer altogether on his ancestry; since the quoted letter persists, it seems that the other letter was sent.
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
English and Welsh (1955)
No. 142: letter to his friend Robert Murray, S.J. (December 1953)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
“Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.”
No. 131: letter to Milton Waldman (c. 1951)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
To Christopher Tolkien in South Africa
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
English and Welsh (1955)
“Every morning I wake up and think good, another 24 hours' pipe-smoking.”
A rare interview with Tolkien (1966) — "Tolkien's shire" by John Ezard, The Guardian (28 December 1991) http://www.theguardian.com/books/1991/dec/28/jrrtolkien.classics
“A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.”
Letter to his son Christopher (30 January 1945) — in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), p. 110
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
“Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.”
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
No. 180: To a Mr. Thompson (incomplete draft of a letter, 1956).
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
English and Welsh (1955)
Fuente: Letter to his son, Christopher (30 January 1945); published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), Letter 96
Letter to Edith, as quoted in J. R. R. Tolkien: a biography (1977) by Humphrey Carpenter, p. 66
English and Welsh (1955)
