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111 - Eleventy-first Episode Extravaganza

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Tolkien in a Great War

Poetry points out that Tolkien crafted his languages with a certain aesthetic quality. I just it's clear Tolkien simply had a way of creating language that possessed really true oral beauty. And as you said before the clip, Putri shared some really cool observations that came from John Garth in Tolkien in the Great War about this musical language and the way Tolkien's Quenu words created these sound pictures. Now, for more on that, you should really see John Gartz Tolkien in a great war anyway. If you haven't read it, read it. You really should.

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