I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its consistent internal reference, and the green secondary world of Faërie with its own inner consistency of reality.
— J.R.R. Tolkien Modern

Lord of the Rings

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Foreword to the Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings

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1965

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Controversial

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