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Join the roomTolkien es uno de los cráteres más septentrionales en Mercurio, ubicado en el cuadrángulo Borealis a 88.82 N, 211.08 W. Tiene 50 km de diámetro. Fue nombrado en honor al escritor británico nacido en Sudáfrica J. R. R. Tolkien. El nombre fue aprobado por el Grupo de Trabajo para la Nomenclatura del Sistema Planetario de la IAU el 6 de agosto de 2012. Dado que Tolkien está muy cerca del polo norte, y Mercurio tiene casi ninguna inclinación axial, Tolkien recibe muy poca luz solar. Los datos de radar en banda S del Observatorio de Arecibo recopilados entre 1999 y 2005 indican que un área brillante en el radar cubre todo el suelo de Tolkien, lo que probablemente indica un depósito de hielo de agua.
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“Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.”
“I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story...”
“If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time ... human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.”
“"[M]y friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and most hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers."”
“'Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.”
“The unpayable debt that I owe to him [C. S. Lewis] was not "influence" as it is ordinarily understood, but sheer encouragement. He was for long my only audience. Only from him did I ever get the idea that my "stuff" could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
