"I first tried to write a story when I was about seven. It was about a dragon. My mother said nothing..."

“I first tried to write a story when I was about seven. It was about a dragon. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say ‘a green great dragon,’ but had to say ‘a great green dragon.’ I wondered why, and still do.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to W.H. Auden (via maisiewilliams)