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J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973

J. R. R. Tolkien on art

For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.

J. R. R. Tolkien

“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” (1936), p. 14

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