Teaching D at a Russian University

[Mike Parker]

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.