“In Paradise perchance the eye may stray
from gazing upon everlasting Day
to see the day illumined, and renew
from mirrored truth the likeness of the True.”

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Mythopoeia (1931)

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British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy … 1892–1973

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