who said...

[tamlin_kitsune]

"If they won't write the kinds of books we want to read, we shall have to write them ourselves."


~ J R R Tolkien to his friend C S Lewis

Comments

[parapluies.livejournal.com]

TRUE THAT.

[kitsune13-tam.livejournal.com]

it's always nice to hear when the greats have the same issues we do - lol

[aliale.livejournal.com]

I always liked the way Tolkien's brain worked! :D

[kitsune13-tam.livejournal.com]

what can we say? The man knew what he was doing!

[calen-greenleaf.livejournal.com]

I remember this quote. Tolkien...my favorite author. He had a lot of good quotes.

[kitsune13-tam.livejournal.com]

my mom introduced me to him when I was in the fifth grade and read the entire LOTRs trilogy (except Shelob - couldn't do Shelob at that age). He's a hard act to spend the rest of your life trying to follow ;)