No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It w…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself. ✨ English and Welsh. Lecture at the University of Oxford on October 21, 1955. The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays. Book edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1983.
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