Ralph C. Wood Quote
Satirical against those who called him an escapist for creating the fantastic world of Middle-earth: The notion that motor-cars are more `alive' than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more `real' than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startlingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm-tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist! (MC, 149).
Ralph C. Wood
Satirical against those who called him an escapist for creating the fantastic world of Middle-earth: The notion that motor-cars are more `alive' than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more `real' than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startlingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm-tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist! (MC, 149).