Berkeley, Claremont wildflowers: Tolkien knew how to tell stories, and explain them ... Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien :)

Tolkien knew how to tell stories, and explain them ... Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien :)

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

— J. R. R. Tolkien, born January 3, 1892 — 120 years ago today!

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