JRRT, then Merton Professor of Anglo-Saxon is in my opinion the greatest modern day mythographer of the the Modern world. No one so IN-Genius to connect Ural-Altaic/Chinese myths with Anglo-Saxon (Germanic) myths of England has dared to win such a glorious feat with ancient, and classical Judeao-Christian (as a Roman Catholic), and orphaned child, and having fought in WWI in the dark, grizzly trenches.
If there is anything that is to be learned in these most despairing time, as the film-RETURN OF THE KING, so well portrays-that is is in the last "mythic apocalyptic" battles of doom, that we must fight, for a a great Light of Heaven to radiate and shine for ultimate struggle for victory against the forces of darkness.
I would like to thank Dr Nicholas Birns for showing me a old Oxford University, English Dept. mimeographed copy of an year book with JRRT's pupil from New Zealand, when I was suffering from serious illness.
To respect the Tokien Legacy-I came in my Sunday best with a tie and glossed shoes.
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