Though it's not Middle-Earth, I also find "On Fairy-Stories" very helpful. For me, it's nice to have some idea of the theory underlying this stuff.
--Belin Ibaimendi... thinking she really ought to get started on HoME....
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"I hate dignity," cried Scraps, kicking a pebble high in the air and then trying to catch it as it fell. "Half the fools and all the wise folks are dignified, and I'm neither the one nor the other." --L. Frank Baum
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