Tolkien's Intellectual Landscape Quotes

“One must believe that despite horrific human action, humans have the potential or can at least imagine the potential to learn to act not only courageously and with self-sacrifice, which world war had taught, but also morally and ethically and lovingly, which war had greatly called into question.”
― E.L. Risden, Tolkien's Intellectual Landscape

“They may sometimes wrestle with the difficulties of living in a more thorough and interesting way even than philosophers, since storytelling allows for great complexity in character creation as well as narrative experimentation, which can enhance our capacity to show ideas more comprehensively”
― E.L. Risden, Tolkien's Intellectual Landscape