Think - Tolkien
Ordinary:
"If he was able to dodge the blackest side of celebrity -- the annihilation of self -- it's because J.R.R. Tolkien was so ordinary, so frumpy, that he just preferred sticking to the pleasures of his daily routine instead of climbing aboard some jet bound for Manhattan or Hollywood. In fact, he never even visited America; on the night in 1966 when writer Truman Capote was bedazzling Gotham with his glitz-drunk Black & White Ball, Tolkien was most likely tucked away in his study, alone, maybe fine-tuning the geography of the Imlad Morgul. As a result, the man is everywhere and nowhere -- with one hairy hobbit's foot in our world and the other a quantum leap away."
Read Think at The Hammock Papers.
I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know
But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door
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