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For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself.

These were very happy years for Tolkien. Looking back later in life he described Sarehole as ‘a kind of lost paradise’. It was a time and place he would later conjure up in his descriptions of the Shire.