Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
Tolkien, lucky man, had protected a realm of his own invention to which he could flee. Robert Graves, embittered by battle, writes: The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his_ Wisdom made him old and wary banishing his Lords of Faery
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
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Tolkien, lucky man, had protected a realm of his own invention to which he could flee. Robert Graves, embittered by battle, writes: The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his_ Wisdom made him old and wary banishing his Lords of Faery
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