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“Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien, "A Secret Vice," lecture, 1931, in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (1983)

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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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