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Tolkien’s Precious Words and the Rise of Canon Gatekeeping

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Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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Tolkien’s Precious Words and the Rise of Canon Gatekeeping

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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