Quotations from J.R.R. Tolkien

“The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air."

Treebeard in J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. 

“I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.” J.R.R.Tolkien in a letter to his son Michael, 9 June 1941

I apologise for quoting Tolkien but I start to think he might have be a serious and important writer with a message for our day. He was a Catholic, a conservative, a patriot and a traditionalist.

Tolkien detested the Nazis but after the war he subscribed to Candour magazine, founded by G.K. Chesterton's far right cousin A.K. Chesterton, who had been close to Oswald Mosley and later set up the League of Empire Loyalists and then the National Front, a party that Tolkien's son Christopher joined.