#158- Tolkien's The Silmarillion Part 2
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The Silmarillion
I want to start a nation where Silmarillion is our guiding myth. I don't think that it will become the guiding myth of the English-speaking people until they're all gone. It'll be discovered in the ruins somewhere. Beowulf is already taking on a historical, no, no, views of Beowulf or becoming historical views. Not that anybody thinks that there was a dragon, but they see the history of England as being set in that kind of world now. Yeah. And speaking of Baron and Lythian, I want to read, this is on the Infaglactic Tolkien page, is wife died in 71. I never called Edith Lythian
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