You have the vast history and moral under-moorings of our great Judeo-Christian heritage, which supremely influenced the founding of this nation and speaks of nothing less than the Creator bending down to touch Creation. You have the epical mythology and capital-R Reasoning of the Greeks, which led to capital-T Thought , the conciseness of thought, and the practical miracles that is Science, which will one day lead to our mastery of the universe.
And then you have the sweeping poetical prose of Tolkien, a heroic and mystical amalgamation of peoples, cultures, languages, and mostly forgotten virtues such as honor, duty, sacrifice, and the black-and-whiteness of good and evil. It should be required reading for everyone, and taught in the classrooms, would it not become corrupted.
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