A Tribute

By now, if you have been reading along with me, the picture is starting to come, we are building a puzzle the wrong way, from the center out. Anything else would lack challenge.
So, join me now, on my latest meander through the miasma of thoughts that bubble to the surface of my brain.
Today, I am pondering a man I love passionately, though I have never met him, will never meet him, to tell him of my adoration.
As a small child, his thoughts were handed down to me, wearing a grubby wrapper, and adorned with dog-eared pages, beloved and worn. These gifts remain, upon my shelf, waiting to become heirlooms, to create old memories afresh in new minds.
In his words, I found a lust for more, an appreciation for the beauty of a language well wrought, and a glance into my own gloriously messy and wonderful. In his books I found a world I could visit time and again, and never grow weary, a playground of language creating society, creating new words, creating new worlds.
It is a crystal memory, a life I can enver forget, would never wish to. In turn, his life has touched my own, and changed me in a paradigm shifting way. I see it in the fall of leaves, in the rustle of the bush.
\'Hush. Who\'s there?\"
The leavings of a brilliant soul.

--In memory of J.R.R. Tolkien, and all the wonder he has created in my life.
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