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J.R.R. Tolkien: You are the most remarkable spirit I have ever met. You have courage and resourcefulness, talent, you're proud, maddeningly, wonderfully, so; and you are cunning and vibrant and completely alive. You deserve every happiness you find. No. No, you don't. You don't deserve happiness, that's not what I - What I mean is, you deserve much more. You deserve magic.
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Father Francis: I spend my every afternoon with mothers, widows. What can I say to them? Your sons have died in the war to end all wars.
J.R.R. Tolkien: What do you say?
Father Francis: Words are useless. Modern words, anyway. I speak the liturgy. There's a comfort, I think, in distance. Ancient things.
Andrew Rawlinson-Heath
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