Aha! An unexpected location, yet wonderfully chosen! Tolkien quotes from Drayton's
Nymphidia:
Quote:
And windows of the eyes of cats,
And for the roof, instead of slats,
Is covered with the wings of bats.
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That's the kind of pigwiggery that Tolkien despises - no wonder it didn't sound typical of our favorite author! Great quote,
TM.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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