The Daily Optimist
January 11  ·  Hope

What Concert Would Tolkien Go To?

What concert would Tolkien go to?
— None
From Travis's 2016 curiosity journal

J.R.R. Tolkien invented a world with its own languages, histories, and songs because he believed story was the most ancient and most necessary human act. He wrote songs for his characters before he wrote the plot. He believed music was memory made audible. If you asked him what concert he'd attend, he'd probably say: the kind where nobody checks their phone. Where the song matters as much as the performance. Where the story outlasts the evening.

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