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attack-of-the-hobbits:

“Tolkien believes in his world and in all those who inhabit it… this failure of belief on an author’s part is, I think, what turns so many books that mean to deal with the real things of life that really happen to the real souls and bodies of real people in the real world into the cramped little stages where varyingly fashionable marionettes jiggle and sing. But I believe Tolkien has wandered Middle-Earth, which exists nowhere but in himself, and I understand the sadness of the elves, and have seen Mordor.” -Peter S. Beagle