“And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
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“Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
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“And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
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