Stephen R. Lawhead Quotes

J. R. R. Tolkien, Undisputedly A Most Fluent Speaker Of This Language, Was Criticized In His Day For Indulging His Juvenile Whim Of Writing Fantasy, Which Was Then Considered - As It Still Is In Many Quarters - An Inferior Form Of Literature And Disdained As Mere "escapism." "Of Course It Is Escapist," He Cried. "That Is Its Glory! When A Soldier Is A Prisoner Of War It Is His Duty To Escape - And Take As Many With Him As He Can." He Went On To Explain, "The Moneylenders, The Knownothings, The Authoritarians Have Us All In Prison; If We Value The Freedom Of The Mind And Soul, If We're Partisans Of Liberty, Then It's Our Plain Duty To Escape, And To Take As Many People With Us As Possible.

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