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“I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
Writer and philologist
Letter to Edith, as quoted in J. R. R. Tolkien: a biography (1977) by Humphrey Carpenter, p. 66
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