And its object is Art not Power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.
J. R. R. Tolkien, on the 'magic' of the Elves
Adieu!
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"This miserable drizzling afternoon I have been reading up old military lecture-notes again:- and getting bored with them after an hour and a half. I have done some touches to my nonsense fairy language - to its improvement."
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