l’amour

If you kiss a girl gently on her forehead, a little door might open if you're pure of heart. https://t.co/e0ZQacaUc1

When he was stationed at Kingston upon Hull, he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos, and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock. After his wife's death in 1971, Tolkien remembered:[T 5]

I never called Edith Luthien —but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarill

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Love demands a complete inner transformation — for without this we cannot possibly come to identify ourselves with our brother. We have to become, in some sense, the person we love. And this involves a kind of death of our own being, our own self.