• Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.

    J. R. R. Tolkien: Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt