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“I wept when I wrote that.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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Wikiquote: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Context

response by Tolkien during a "Hobbit Meal" at Rotterdam Holland attended 28 March 1958, in response to Professor Lambers summarizing approximately (as translated by Rossenberg from Dutch) "Gollum is mollified by the vulnerability of the sleeping hobbit and is at the point of redemption. But Sam, mis

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Tolkien, J. R. R.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: J. R. R. Tolkien. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

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