Tolkien, lucky man, had protected a realm of his own invention to which he could flee. Robert Graves, embittered by battle, writes: The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his… Wisdom made him old and wary banishing his Lords of Faery

Philip Zaleski
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Tolkien, lucky man, had protected a realm of his own invention to which he could flee. Robert Graves, embittered by battle, writes: The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his… Wisdom made him old and wary banishing his Lords of Faery. The idea in this quote is that when people are in childhood they are innocent and can escape into imaginary worlds. They are free to create their own worlds in their minds where they can be anything they wish because they are not burdened with the stress of the real world. Some adults find it difficult to release this innocence when they grow up and become jaded by life.

Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives Of The Inklings: J.r.r. Tolkien, C.s. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

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