I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half waken…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.
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