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Showing posts with label Boethius. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Boethius. Show all posts

11 July 2024

Face up, Face down with Gollum and Boethius

Recently I saw someone somewhere inline asking about Gandalf's characterization of Gollum in The Shadow of the Past . The most inquisi...

08 June 2023

Boethius and the Unman in Perelandra

I have been spending a fair bit of time with Boethius and Saint Augustine lately. No, really that's okay. My next book will begin with q...

30 November 2020

Predestination as Algorithm -- Boethius, Consolation, 5 pr. ii

In replying to Boethius' question about Free Will and Fate, Lady Philosophy states: 'There is freedom,' said she; 'nor, ...

26 November 2020

From Lady Philosophy to Gollum: 'The roots of those mountains must be roots indeed' (FR 1.ii.54)

In telling Gollum's story to Frodo, Gandalf introduces him as follows: 'Long after, but still very long ago, there lived by the bank...

20 August 2017

It Wants To Be Found

Near the beginning of his chapter on 'The Heavens' in The Discarded Image , C. S. Lewis quotes from Chaucer to illustrate the...

23 June 2017

Sand of Pearls in Elvenland, or, Boethius on the Shore

The Shores of Valinor -- copyright Ted Nasmith Being a lifelong lover of the Sea and the shore, I have always found Tolkien's...

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