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"This sort of thing--the building up of a poetic language out of words and forms archaic and dialectical or used in special senses--may be regrettable or disliked. There is nonetheless a case for it: the development of a form of language familiar in meaning and yet freed from trivial associations, and filled with the memory of good and evil, is an achievement, and its possessors are richer than those who have no such tradition."

--JRR Tolkien, defending the use of archaic language