>
> Many have felt so. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a poem about it
> (
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/mythopoeia.txt); if your boyfriend's English
> is
> up to the task, this excerpt is particularly relevant:
>
> The heart of Man is not compound of lies,
> but draws some wisdom from the only Wise,
> and still recalls Him. Though now long estranged,
> Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.
> Dis-graced he may be, yet is not dethroned,
> and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned, [...]
> Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light
> through whom is splintered from a single White
> to many hues, and endlessly combined
> in living shapes that move from mind to mind.
> Though all the crannies of the world we filled
> with elves and goblins, though we dared to build
> Gods and their houses out of dark and light,
> and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right
> (used or misused). That right has not decayed.
> We make still by the law in which we're made.
>