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Book: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
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  1. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Monsters and the Critics

    For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote.
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  2. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Monsters and the Critics

    Non vedi laggiù la stretta via Così angusta, circondata da spine e da rovi? E' il sentiero della Virtù, Sebbene così pochi lo ricerchino. E non vedi laggiù quell'ampia, ampia strada, Che si snoda attraverso il campo di gigli? E' il sentiero della Malvagità, Sebbene alcuni lo chiamino la Via del Paradiso. E non vedi laggiù un grazioso viottolo Che serpeggia sull'erta tra le felci? E' il sentiero verso la magica Terra degli Elfi Dove tu e io questa notte avremo riposo.
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  3. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Monsters and the Critics

    There are in any case many heroes but very few good dragons.
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  4. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Monsters and the Critics

    the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and many-headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally refuse to worship any of the hydras' heads.
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  5. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Monsters and the Critics

    Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.
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