Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.
J. R. R. TolkienI am a Christianโฆso that I do not expect โhistoryโ to be anything but a โlong defeatโ โ though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.
J. R. R. TolkienMy name is growing all the time, and Iโve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.
J. R. R. Tolkien