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Perhaps we can do a series about the EntWives The Shrike Send a noteboard - 17/11/2017 01:48:15 PM

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The light of the Trees fades, the Silmarilii are lost, Numenor is destroyed, the elves diminish and go into West...

The victories of his works are bittersweet in a way that not many other authors achieve. Guy Gavriel Kay probably comes closest.


And yes, there is a pervading sense of melancholy. I do love Tolkien's work though I wonder if he had read Spengler.

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