jrr tolkien: i really love my wife. i will make her into a beautiful, unearthly half-angel princess who beat satan almost single-handedly and won an argument with the keeper of the halls of the dead
jrr tolkien: i really love my best friend. i will make him into a grumpy old tree who never gets to the point
Marriage vs. friendship
To be fair, Tolkien loved trees to the point that people hated going on walks with him because he’d stop and admire a tree for 20 minutes, so turning his best friend into a tree was probably a huge compliment in his own eyes.

























