Robots and Aliens vs. Elves and Orcs

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I have found the quote.

Tolkien believed that you could tell more truth with myth than you can with history. Tolkien believed that history, in the sense of relating facts to an audience as facts, was a weak way of conveying ideas: it was tendencious, it was facile, it lacked depth, and it lacked meaning. And he felt that myth was a far better way of conveying the truth. And his friend C.S. Lewis said, "Well, myth is lies." And Tolkien said, "No, myth isn't lies. Myth is a story that tells you something so important that it doesn't matter whether it is literally true. What's important is the idea that's conveyed."

I found this is a Tolkien documentary entitled "J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of the Rings".

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