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Showing posts with label On Fairy-Stories. Show all posts
12 October 2022

Haters Gonna Hate: Tolkien's 'Shakespeare (which I disliked cordially)'

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In February 1977 Fleetwood Mac released their album Rumours , to huge acclaim and huger sales. At the time I was in high school and a fan of...
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28 June 2022

Hope Shall Come Again: 'The Choices of Master Samwise' and 'The Children of Húrin'

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In 'The Choices of Master Samwise', when Sam believes Frodo to be dead, his anguish leads him to contemplate his own death, by suici...
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23 April 2022

Fear in a handful of dust: reflections in Frodo's dusty mirror (FR 1.iii.68)

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‘I shall get myself a bit into training, too,’ he said, looking at himself in a dusty mirror in the half-empty hall. He had not done any str...
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01 July 2019

'When we are enchanted' -- Mortal Men, Arda, and Faërie

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The Light of Valinor © Ted Nasmith In her paper, 'The Perilous Realm: Faërie and the Numinous in Tolkien', presented at Mythmo...
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21 November 2017

Quickened to Full Life by War (OFS ¶ 56) -- Living the Iliad

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Julian Grenfell Julian Grenfell  was a poet and soldier of the Great War, who embraced the idea of battle and the war even as he als...
11 June 2017

Sir Orfeo, Faërian Drama, and the Quenta Noldorinwa

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Copyright Ted Nasmith In a forthcoming article I argue that in The Hobbit we can see Tolkien using the fairies of medieval Romance, s...
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02 May 2017

Guest Post -- Trish Lambert -- Snow White and Bilbo Baggins

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Last week an article about Tolkien's dislike of Disney's Snow White appeared at Atlas Obscura . The article quoted my f...
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