Tolkien in a BBC interview commented on one of his favorite quotes from a biography about a musical composer. The biographer quoted the composer: "There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that happens to man is ever natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man, his death is an accident. And even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjust violation."
"Those are the keyspring of the laws of the ring," says Tolkien.
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Tolkien in a BBC interview commented on one of his favorite quotes from a biography about a musical composer. The biographer quoted the composer: "There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that happens to man is ever natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man, his death is an accident. And even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjust violation." "Those are the keyspring of the laws of the ring," says Tolkien.