It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
|
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends...
j. r. r. tolkien