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And Tolkien's work communicates, at its deepest root, Faerie - that Something that once was, that is now lost, but may against all odds and evidence, be renewed one day.
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Ah, indeed,
lmp, you bring us back full circle and remind us of the larger parable. I would agree with you that the English countryside succeeds not because it is the literal, factual countryside, but because it partakes of faërie. *curtsies to an argument nicely rounded, to my mind*
Bethberry