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J.R.R. Tolkien
has become a sort of mountain,
appearing in all subsequent fantasy
in the way that Mt. Fuji
appears so often in Japanese prints.
Sometimes it’s big and up close.
Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon.
Sometimes it’s not there at all,
which means that the artist
either has made a deliberate
decision against the mountain,
which is interesting in itself,
or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.
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