Alas, not me

A year ago in July I posted a note called " Somme Starlight " in which I discussed the likelihood that Tolkien had seen Venus in t...

It was Sam’s first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He won...

This year on Tolkien Reading Day I discussed the well-known tale of the inception of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth in a couple of lin...

Recently I've been reading Siegfried Sassoon's  The Memoirs of George Sherston , a series of three novels which tell of the title c...