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Tolkien explains what the books are about in this hd-upscaled clip—enjoy!

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death always on our minds

"Let us not be overthrown at the final test."

- Aragorn

“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament. . . . There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death. - Tolkien

The core of it is real from an old interview in much lower fidelity—AI was used to clean up and upscale the visual to as close to state of the art recording equipment as it could muster