愿您说我不在那儿说话很久以来我想说的话。 G. B. Smith的话是对罗纳德·托尔金（Ronald Tolkien）的明确呼吁，开始了他冥想一段时间的伟大作品，这是一个宏伟而令人惊讶的项目，在文学史上很少有相似之处。他将创造整个神话。
(May you say the things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them. G. B. Smith's words were a clear call to Ronald Tolkien to begin the great work that he had been meditating for some time, a grand and astonishing project with few parallels in the history of literature. He was going to create an entire mythology.)