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Quotes from Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics — J. R. R. Tolkien

1892–1973

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The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning.

Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936)

For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.

Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936)

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