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# Tolkien in his letters on Eden on earth and the feeling of exile
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/no-na-etoi-ochen-neschastnoi-zemle-nesomnenno-byl-edem/
- Published: 2023-11-11T10:03:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:49:49.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Books

But on this very unhappy earth there was, without doubt, an Eden. We all think of it: the whole of our nature, in its best and least corrupted, its tenderest and most human expressions, is still pervaded by a sense of “exile”.

From Tolkien’s letters.

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