Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ou…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Lord of the Rings: One Volume, p.409, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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