J.R.R. Tolkien Quote
The morning came, pale and clammy. Frodo woke up first, and found that a tree-root had made a hole in his back, and that his neck was stiff. Walking for pleasure! Why didn't I drive? he thought, as he usually did at the beginning of an expedition. And all my beautiful feather beds are sold to the Sackville-Bagginses! These tree-roots would do them good. He stretched. Wake up, hobbits! he cried. It's a beautiful morning.What's beautiful about it? said Pippin, peering over the edge of his blanket with one eye. Sam! Get breakfast ready for half-past nine! Have you got the bath-water hot?Sam jumped up, looking rather bleary. No, sir, I haven't, sir! he said.Frodo stripped the blankets from Pippin and rolled him over, and then walked off to the edge of the wood.
The morning came, pale and clammy. Frodo woke up first, and found that a tree-root had made a hole in his back, and that his neck was stiff. Walking for pleasure! Why didn't I drive? he thought, as he usually did at the beginning of an expedition. And all my beautiful feather beds are sold to the Sackville-Bagginses! These tree-roots would do them good. He stretched. Wake up, hobbits! he cried. It's a beautiful morning.What's beautiful about it? said Pippin, peering over the edge of his blanket with one eye. Sam! Get breakfast ready for half-past nine! Have you got the bath-water hot?Sam jumped up, looking rather bleary. No, sir, I haven't, sir! he said.Frodo stripped the blankets from Pippin and rolled him over, and then walked off to the edge of the wood.
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About J.R.R. Tolkien
From 1925 to 1945 Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, and held these positions from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group the Inklings. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.
After Tolkien's death his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda and, within it, Middle-earth. Between 1951 and 1955 Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings.
While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the tremendous success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ignited a profound interest in the fantasy genre and ultimately precipitated an avalanche of new fantasy books and authors. As a result he has been popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature and is widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of all time.