Cinder on Twitter: "@IntoTheBlues Tolkien's characterization of Sauron: "He had gone the way of all tyrants: beginning well, at least on the level that while desiring to order all things according to his own wisdom he still at first considered the (economic) well-being of other inhabitants of the Earth."" / Twitter

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Tolkien's characterization of Sauron: "He had gone the way of all tyrants: beginning well, at least on the level that while desiring to order all things according to his own wisdom he still at first considered the (economic) well-being of other inhabitants of the Earth."

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lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net/ref/letters_ev More of this here. Interesting reading. It's some sort of mythic recurrence in storytelling.

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