On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 11:04:45 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
I read that the "for" as an equivalent of "because" was indeed
almost extinct but was more or less resurrected by Tolkien as
he used it throughout Lord of the Rings and the
Hobbit.https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/566024/the-meaning-of-word-for-at-the-beginning-of-sentence
Yes, the Tolkienesque way of using "for" at the beginning of a
sentence is rarely used anymore. But it is still sometimes used
in modern writing to join two independent clauses together in a
single sentence, usually for flavor.
