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Tolkien and Lewis were attracted to the genres of myth and romance not because they sought to escape the world, but because for them the real world had a mythic and heroic quality.


“Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.”
― A Hard Day's Knight
― A Hard Day's Knight

“Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.”
― Storm Front
― Storm Front

“I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
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“Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.”
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