I just read Tolkien's second autobiographical allegory, Smith of Wootton Major, for the first time. If you've read it, we can share our ideas on the analogies to JRRT's life. I'm not quite ready to analyze it yet, though; my first reaction is purely emotional - tears for so much beauty, sadness and loss.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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