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“Though now long estranged, man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien, Mythopoeia, 1931

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About J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 – 1973

English author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings".

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