The poignant last words of Geoffrey Smith (a poet) to Tolkien (a life long childhood friend and schoolmate):

> I am a wild and whole-hearted admirer, and my chief consolation is, that if I am scuppered to-night — I am off on duty in a few minutes — there will still be left a member of the great T.C.B.S. to voice what I dreamed and what we all agreed upon. For the death of one of its members cannot, I am determined, dissolve the T.C.B.S… Yes, publish…. You I am sure are chosen, like Saul among the Children of Israel. Make haste, before you come out to this orgy of death and cruelty… **May God bless you, my dear John Ronald, and may you say the things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them, if such be my lot.**

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