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Roverandom QUOTES

Roverandom QUOTES

1 " Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom

2 " I did nothing but run away from the time I was a puppy, and I kept on running and roving until one fine morning - a very fine morning, with the sun in my eyes - I fell over the world's edge chasing a butterfly. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom

3 " He smelt cake. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom

4 " Valour needs first strength, then a weapon. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom

5 " A good vocabulary,’ he once wrote (April 1959), ‘is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one’s age-group. It comes from reading books above one "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom

6 " Now fly off and amuse yourself. Don’t worry the moonbeams, and don’t kill my white rabbits, and come home when you are hungry! The window on the roof is usually open. Good-bye!’ He vanished immediately into thin air; and anybody who has never been there will tell you how extremely thin the moon-air is. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom

7 " Thank you,’ said Rover, feeling crushed. ‘It is very kind of all these wizards to trouble themselves about me, I am sure, though it is rather upsetting. You never know what will happen next, when once you get mixed up with wizards and their friends. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom

8 " That Tolkien also included in Roverandom words such as paraphernalia, and phosphorescent, primordial, and rigmarole, is refreshing in these later days when such language is considered too ‘difficult’ for young children – a view with which Tolkien would have disagreed. ‘A good vocabulary,’ he once wrote (April 1959), ‘is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one’s age-group. It comes from reading books above one’ (Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien [1981], pp. 298–9). "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom

9 " he didn’t think the explanation explained. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom

10 " You never know what will happen next, when once you get mixed up with wizards and their friends. "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom

11 " Quella è l'Isola dei Cani', disse Mew, 'o meglio l'Isola dei Cani Smarriti, dove vanno tutti i cani perduti che se lo meritano o sono fortunati. Mi dicono che non è male, per un cane; possono fare tutto il chiasso che vogliono senza che nessuno gli ordini di piantarla o gli tiri dietro qualcosa. Tengono un magnifico concerto ogni volta che splende la luna, abbaiando tutti insieme i loro versi preferiti. Pare che ci siano anche alberi di ossi con frutti succulenti che cadono dalla pianta quando sono maturi. (..) "

― J.R.R. Tolkien , Roverandom