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  • I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.

    J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt