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Karen Sergeant's avatar

[I]t is not our part to master *all* the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

I wonder if Tolkien knew Levinas…

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Alison Crosthwait's avatar

A juicy question.... so close and yet such different worlds in some ways. Both remembering from the same source....

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