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J.R.R. Tolkien

“My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
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