"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart."
Commenting on Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, C.S. Lewis said the above.
It does. Aragorn, Frodo, Sam, Faramir, the two princeling hobbit in their return to the shire and how they have grown. The numerous times that hope seems lost and on the brink , some good news comes. The Lord of the Rings, breaks my heart. In a very happy way. If theatre and poetry and prose is to help us to train our emotions, then Tolkien is a supercoach. Drink of his riches.
Lewis spoke these words after reading The Two Towers.
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