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All literature enchants and delights us, recovers us from the 10,000 things that distract us. The unenchanted life is not worth living.

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Showing posts with label Tom Shippey. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Tom Shippey. Show all posts

18 August 2019

'When winter first begins to bite -- Echoes and Re-echoes of Chaucer at FR 2.iii.273

In The Road to Middle-earth Tom Shippey argues (184-85) that the poem Bilbo recites to Frodo in The Ring Goes South 'in ...

18 September 2018

Houses of Mirth and Lamentation

Copyright Donato Giancola A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy tu...

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...

04 July 2015

Not What You Might Expect From Beowulf

A few months back I began a project I had long wished to undertake. Ever since I was a lad and first read The Lord of the Rings, I had wa...

28 March 2015

Again That Vile Creature, With A Special Guest Appearance by Grendel

In a series of recent posts I've been analyzing the portrayal of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings prior to his entry to the stage in Th...

04 March 2015

Me, Spock, and Beowulf, All on the Ferry.

In Beowulf, when the hero enters Heorot, the mead hall of King Hrothgar, he is greeted by the king and invited to join them at their feast....

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