“Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.”

No. 131: letter to Milton Waldman (c. 1951)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)

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

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