However, Tolkien frequently disliked the idea that his works were allegorical, saying in the foreword to the 2nd edition of The Lord of the Rings, " But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations ..." and " I think that many confuse ' applicability ' with ' allegory '; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

In the foreword to a booklet published to commemorate his visit, he wrote, " I have now travelled over most of Canada and have seen many wonderful things, but I have seen nothing more beautiful and more wonderful than the great park which British Columbia has done me the honour to call by my name ".

Costain noted in his foreword that he initially intended the book to be about Bayan and Edward I, but became caught up in the legend of Thomas a Becket's parents: an English knight married to an Eastern girl.

In 1973, Trevor-Roper in the foreword to a book by John Röhl endorsed the view that Germany was largely responsible for World War I. Trevor-Roper wrote that, in his opinion, far too many British historians had allowed themselves to be persuaded of the theory that the outbreak of war in 1914 had been the fault of all the great powers.

Carl Jung's idea of synchronicity moves towards an Oriental view of causality, as he states in the foreword to Richard Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching ( Book of Changes ).

According to Hickman in the foreword to The Soulforge, " were just settling in to the game when I turned to my good friend Terry Phillips and asked what his character was doing.

I have always assumed that it was the man who wrote the foreword – Mr. Lewin '.

The foreword is a letter from Thatcher in which she summarises the feelings that she has for Number 10: " How much I wish that the public ... could share with me the feeling of Britain's historic greatness which pervades every nook and cranny of this complicated and meandering old building ... All Prime Ministers are intensely aware that, as tenants and stewards of No. 10 Downing Street, they have in their charge one of the most precious jewels in the nation's heritage.

Muir wrote in the foreword: " Grace is what I find in these poems ".

In the foreword to Dennis Belafonte's The Films of Tyrone Power, King said, " Knowing his love for flying and feeling that I had started it, I flew over his funeral procession and memorial park during his burial, and felt that he was with me.

I mis-remembered a term that I had come across in the foreword to an H. Rider Haggard book, where the author was talking about Jules Verne, H. G.

The author was George I. Martin, with a foreword by Curt Gowdy.

According to Hickman in the foreword to The Soulforge, " were just settling in to the game when I turned to my good friend Terry Phillips and asked what his character was doing.

The foreword to the second edition of 1983 claims, " It has been very gratifying for me that none of these recent developments has invalidated anything I wrote seven years ago.

In this edition there was a foreword written by Bradbury himself, called " May I Die Before My Voice " in Los Angeles, California, on April 24, 1996.

His works include the novels Antoine Bloye ( 1933 ), Le Cheval de Troie and La Conspiration ( 1938 ) and the essays " Les Chiens de garde " ( 1932 ) and " Aden Arabie " ( 1931 ), which introduced him to a new audience when republished in 1960 with a foreword by Sartre ; in particular, the incipit " I was twenty, I won't let anyone say those are the best years of your life " became one of the most influential slogans of student protests during May ' 68.

In the foreword, he stated ; " I can safely say that the present work on Code of Civil Procedure leaves nothing unexplained, which ought to have been explained.

And John Coltrane, for me, carried this more foreword into … I want to use the word “ world music ” but in terms of music from “ third world countries ”.

I Me Mine was re-published with a new foreword from Olivia Harrison, his wife, in 2002.

As revealed in the foreword to the trade paperback form of The Last Arkham, Zsasz's name is derived from that of psychiatrist Thomas Szasz ; Grant saw the name while visiting a library.

1942 also saw the publication of High Adventure, Cobby's account of his experiences in World War I ; the foreword was written by Air Vice Marshal George Jones, newly appointed Chief of the Air Staff and fellow No. 4 Squadron veteran.

Terenzi wrote the foreword for Paula Berinstein's recent book " Making Space Happen: Private Space Efforts and the People Behind Them " ( Plexus Books ) and has been featured in full chapter in Laura Woodmansee's " Women of Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier " ( Apogee Books ) and the music and techonology book " The Art of Digital Music " by Kelli Richards and David Battino.

There are many collections of his work, including Drawn and Quartered ( 1942 ) and Monster Rally ( 1950 ), the latter with a foreword by John O ' Hara.

" Ironically, Chase would later write the foreword for Carroll's collection of Whorf's writings.

In 2008, he provided a foreword for the first book collection of Richard Thompson's Cul De Sac comic strip.

She wrote the foreword to his collection Death: The High Cost of Living ; he in turn wrote the introduction to Comic Book Tattoo.

Shortly before his death, Rollo May wrote the foreword to Robert Kramer's edited collection of Rank ’ s American lectures.

In the foreword to her 1999 retrospective collection Crass Art and Other Pre Post-Modernist Monsters, Ian Dury writes ;

* Jennifer Knapp wrote the foreword for RAW: A Poetic Journey, a collection of poetry from Gay Christians and allies around the world.

Photographer Lyle Owerko, who has a collection of over 50 boomboxes, documented the cultural history of the device in his 2010 book The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music and the Urban Underground, with a foreword by Spike Lee.

The collection was prefaced with a foreword written by Gaiman-fan and collaborator, singer Tori Amos, as well as the hard-to-find public service announcement AIDS-awareness 8-page comic Death Talks about Life.

Alain Locke wrote in his foreword to the literary collection The New Negro, “ We turn therefore in the other direction to the elements of truest social portraiture … we shall let the Negro speak for himself .” Locke believed that African Americans lived in a world with political realities, and thus needed to respond with a deliberate politics in their work.

According to the foreword in Robot Visions, Asimov was approached to write a story titled " Bicentennial Man " for a science fiction collection, along with a number of other authors who would do the same, in honor of the bicentennial of the United States.

" The foreword was reprinted in Adams's posthumously-published collection of writings, The Salmon of Doubt.

In 1997, she brought together 38 poems from seven of her earlier volumes in The Stream & the Sapphire, a collection intended, as Levertov explains in the foreword to the collection, to " trace my slow movement from agnosticism to Christian faith, a movement incorporating much doubt and questioning as well as affirmation.

This collection features stories printed from March 9, 2003 through August 23, 2003, plus five pages of new material including a foreword by John Ringo, a feature explaining how Sgt.

Millar in particular wrote the foreword to the 2008 Youngblood collection published by Image Comics, in which he defended that series as an entry in the celebrity superhero subgenre that predated The Authority and X-Statix.

Wieseltier also edited and introduced a volume of works by Lionel Trilling entitled The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and wrote the foreword to Ann Weiss's The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a collection of personal photographs that serves as a paean to pre-Shoah innocence.

A collection of Will Ogilvie's poetry was published in ( Saddle for a Throne 1952 ISBN 0-9599299-4-0 ) and was " Dedicated to Comrades of Camp-fire and Muster "; the book contains a foreword by R. M. Williams, who met him in the late 1940s and who was instrumental in publishing the works.

In the foreword for a collection titled The Art of Halo, Bungie founder Jason Jones noted that bringing together the elements of a video game is unmistakably " art.

* " Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin: a legend of British ballet: a collection of portraits "; foreword by Peter Williams

* " Markova: a collection of photographic studies by Gordon Anthony "; foreword by Dame Ninette de Valois

In 1964, Angus & Robertson published his fifth collection The Ghost of the Cock, then in 1969 released his well-known Collected Poems, with an unforgettable foreword by Sir Herbert Read ( the eminent leading British critic in his day ) that compared Webb's work on equal footing with that of major European and American poets Pasternak, Lowell, Rilke and Eliot.

This idea is very similar to the 1981 science fiction short story Walpurgisnacht by Roger Zelazny, and the foreword in the 1983 collection Unicorn Variations mentions an unexpected contemporary invention of a ' talking tombstone '.

Created by Doctor Who producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks as a realistic alternative strand of TV science-fiction, it was not a commercial or critical success ( Dicks himself has stated in a foreword to a collection of Tom Baker-era Doctor Who scripts that they " overdid the grimness and forgot about the sense of wonder that science fiction is all about ").

" Though Whitney declined to endorse Duke's resegregation plan, his foreword supported the value of the book, despite the reputation of Duke, as a collection of scientific evidence, describing it as " a painstakingly documented, academically excellent work of sociobiological-political history ... provid on the order of a thousand references and footnotes.