J. R. R. Tolkien

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I would care to meet a person of a sincere and extensively creative mind, with a heart that is congenial, a demeanor with a penchant for nature and aware yet amicable conscience.

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Music:

I enjoy listening to classical music (which really matters not). The music that touches me most is the music of a culture's people; where notes foretell stories words cannot endure.

I direct you thusly to music inspired by my writings. Some of it which is an honor to be accredited to, some which honestly is not. Nonetheless, it pleases me to be able to share it with you and so I direct you to the musicians listed on my "top friends."

Movies:

In regard to my books I would ask them to make an effort of imagination sufficient to understand the irritation (and on occasion the resentment) of an author, who finds, increasingly as he proceeds, his work treated as it would seem carelessly in general, in places recklessly, and with no evident signs of any appreciation of what it is all about.
However, I am reluctantly open to the idea of movie adaptations of my books; especially live-action.
As for Americans, it might be advisable to let them do what seems good to them — as long as it was possible to veto anything from or influenced by the Disney studios (for all whose works I have a heartfelt loathing).
Peter Jackson has created more than passable renditions of my stories, I am glad to say. Although, I must inquiry some larger mysteries (such as the large, burning, orb atop Orthanc). The cartoons do not so much please me, but they aren't the worst things to offspring from my writings, of this I am sure.

Television:

Television has nothing to offer except a lesser loss of education, creativity and time than, say, staring at a rug.

Books:

I am most fond of Anglo-Saxon literature, Germanic, Norse and Finnish mythologies and, of course, The Bible.

Some of my most beloved influences are indeed Beowulf, the Kalevala, the Poetic Edda, the Volsunga saga and the Hervarar saga. I must also mention Homer's and Sophocles' works. And last, but not in the least, King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius' being the Consolation of Philosophy known as the Lays of Boethius.

Heroes:

My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith. Also, Dr. Thornton S. Quimby, my Gandalf in life. And, of course, Edith Mary Tolkien née Bratt, my so very beloved Lúthien Tinúviel.