Tolkien, Philosophy, and Jokes (Dr. Peter Kreeft) | Ep. 292
Pints With Aquinas
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Tolkin's Secrets of Language
Tolkin came to class with a wagon full of books. He said, this is philology. Philology means the love of language. So right now the secrets of language are in this wagon. If i am successful in this course, they will no longer be in the wagon. They will be in your heart. After the course was over, he took the wagon with all the books in it up to the platform where he was lecturing from and simply dumped all the books out of the wagon onto the floor. You don't need any more. Good bye.
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