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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 Verlyn Flieger. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Verlyn Flieger. Show all posts

02 October 2017

Faërian Drama: the Final Curtain? (FR 2.viii.377-78)

The singing drew nearer. One clear voice rose now above the others. It was singing in the fair elven-tongue, of which Frodo knew only ...

14 October 2015

Hobbit Verses Versus Verses by Hobbits: Orality, Poetry, and Literacy in Bilbo's Shire

On Saturday 3 October I had the good fortune to attend the The Mythgard Institute 's Midatlantic Speculative Fiction Symposium at the ...

04 October 2015

From Crickhollow to the Gates of Bree: States of Consciousness

In her splendid study, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie , Verlyn Flieger illuminates the role of time and dreams in ...

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