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Modern man thinks he/she is the center of all human existence and the stick against which everything must be measured by.
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Alas! This is more of a human problem rather than just a modern man problem.
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Tolkien took his mythology seriously. Creating a world was not something Tolkien forced himself to do; it was not something he did for money; it was not something he did to entertain others (though this was an important byproduct.) It was something he did because he wanted to, and because he believed that there is power in such myths.
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I would take it a step beyond and say that he made it almost a way of life. He was a part of his world, and perhaps affected by what happened in it, in a way that other writers are not.
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...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...
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