Tolkien's Time Machine: When Literary Worlds Collide - Page 10
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Tolkien's imaginary modern Anglo-Saxons would therefore be a diverse people, and they would be Catholic, and they would be great story-tellers. This is my long-winded way of saying the Anglo-Saxonists may have been on to something without realizing it. But though I take great joy in finding some common ground with them, the sad fact is that we now may know why there will never be another book like The Lord of the Rings. It would take a philologist of J.R.R. Tolkien's calibre (sharing his personal preferences and background) to add another title to that imaginary literary tradition he created, and a man of his genius and insight may come along only once in a thousand years.
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