J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 3, 1892 - September 2, 1973
Birthday: January 3
Death: September 2
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.
topic: Taken, Men, Fairy, Superlatives
