'Celtic' is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of wh…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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'Celtic' is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason. ✨ 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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