Happy twelfty-first birthday, Mr. Tolkien!

I love him so very much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya_tDLYrG28

"The heart of Man is not compund of lies,

but draws some wisdom from the only Wise,

and still recalls him. Though now estranged,

Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.

Dis-graced he may be, yet is not dethroned,

and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned,

his world-dominion by creative act:

not his to worship the great Artefact,

Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light

through whom is splintered from a single White

to many hues, and endlessly combined

in living shapes that move from mind to mind."

- from "Mythopoeia"