John R.R.Tolkien

“You’re a booby,” said William.

“Booby yerself!” said Tom.

You should not be so fat.

Up the Bowman, and down with Moneybags,

False hopes are more dangerous than fears

Manwë, Ulmo, Aulë, Oromë, Mandos,

Lórien, and Tulkas

Varda, Yavanna, Nienna,

Estë, Vairë, Vána, and Nessa

Varda, Yavanna, Nienna,

Estë, Vairë, Vána, and Nessa

One evening Sam came into the study and found his master looking very strange. He was very pale and his eyes seemed to see things far away.

‘What’s the matter, Mr. Frodo?’ said Sam.

‘I am wounded,’ he answered, ‘wounded; it will never really heal.’

But then he got up, and the turn seemed to pass, and he was quite himself the next day. It was not until afterwards that Sam recalled that the date was October the sixth. Two years before on that day it was dark in the dell under Weathertop.

I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

especially since it was primarily linguistic in inspiration and was begun in order to provide the necessary background of ‘history’ for Elvish tongues.