- He wrote the most exquisite poetry I've ever read
- He has created an alternate reality complete with:
- Over a dozen languages
- Thousands of years worth of history and mythology
- Countless characters (each unique and worth mentioning)
- Multitudes of regions and cities
- made up of their own unique races, dialects, history, and folklore
- He was an expert in philology
- He was familiar with two dozen languages
- His fictional languages:
- Are rooted in Norse, Greek, old English, Latin, and Finnish (to name a few)
- Are not simply organized gibberish
- He thought he was a slow writer
- He never expected to become all that popular in the literary world
- He was struck with inspiration by nothing more than a blank page
- What followed afterward was The Hobbit
- The Lord of the Rings:
- Was meant to be one book
- Was meant to be a children's story
- Took twelve years to finish
- Was written for his son, Christopher
- I wish he was alive
- So I could read more of his work
- So I could have any chance of meeting him
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