It could be said that the lectures changed the way many people thought about myth, fairy story, and poetry, and even about the relationship of imagination to thought and to language. One of the brilliant but cryptic insights he expressed was: ‘To ask what is the origins of stories … is to ask what is the origin of language and of the mind.
Colin Duriez, The Return of the Ring Volume I: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012
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