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Tolkien and the Golden Age of Fantasy

March 7th, 2019 | 12 min read

By Thomas Sieberhagen

By Thomas Sieberhagen

For this is quite the final goal of art: to recover this world by giving it to be seen as it is.

–John-Paul Sartre, What Is Literature?

Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme

of things not found within recorded time.

-J. R. R. Tolkien, Mythopoeia

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