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"Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world."

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About J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer, philologist, and scholar best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon and later English language and literature at Oxford. His legendarium became foundational to modern epic fantasy.

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