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J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973

All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and unlike the forms that we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know.

J. R. R. Tolkien on theology

On Fairy-Stories (1939)

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