The Circle of Light in the Dark

There's another point in the essay where Tolkien says something else, which is another pretty famous passage. And I think it's probably my favorite just because there's some great word nerdery in it and there's somegreat old English that I'm probably going to mispronounce. So here we go. Well, I'm glad you're doing it. Not me. Yeah. He who wrote, Halith under Hevnam may have meant in dictionary terms, heroes under heaven, or mighty men upon earth. But he and his hearers were thinking of the airman grunge, the great earth, ringed with garsege, the shoreless sea beneath the skies inaccessible roof