“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”
From “The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien”
July 15, 2015 by Olive Twist ~♥~
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