Alas, not me

As was widely noted back in May of this year Pope Leo XIV quoted Tolkien in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas , specifically Gandalf's ...

The phrase "it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks" has for centuries years been a common English translation of the phras...

Tolkien, it seems quite clear from multiple statements he made in his letters, thought of his tales as taking place in our world, but in an ...

 I ran across the Latin legal phrase dominus lītis  the other day, which means "the master of the suit." According to The Law Dict...

In view of the recent news that Tolkien once said in a letter previously unpublished that Treebeard knew more about what was going on in Th...