From Tolkien’s Masterpiece, the Danger of Words

Adam Roberts notes about The Lord of the Rings, “The repeated theme is the danger of words; their slipperiness but also the ease with which they can move us directly into the malign world of the text. One ring to bind us all. Books are bound, too.”

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