The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

What does your heart tell you?

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.