

“Tolkien believed devoutly that there had once been an Eden on earth, and that man’s original sin and subsequent dethronement were responsible for the ills of the world; but his elves, though capable of sin and error, have not ‘fallen’ in the theological sense, and so are able to achieve much beyond the powers of men. They”
― J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
― J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

“My “Sam Gamgee” is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
― J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
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