This thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard stones to meal;Slays king, ruins town,And beats high mountain down.

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J.R.R. Tolkien was a 19th-century English writer and philologist. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

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