For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and other essays
For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and other essays
For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and other essays
For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and other essays
For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and other essays
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For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote.

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and other essays
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