Alas, not me

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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28 May 2015

Swanships and Swanroads in Tolkien and Beowulf

From the earliest days of the legendarium the swanships were present. In 1917 (or so) Tolkien wrote in The Book of Lost Tales, Part One ...

17 May 2015

Gollum before The Taming of Sméagol (III)

A Long-Expected Party and The Shadow of the Past paint a very ugly portrait of Gollum. The one thing that runs counter to this is Gandal...

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...

22 March 2015

Tolkien Reading Day 2015 -- On Friendship

The other day, thanks to +Jeremiah Burns , I read a BBC article on a 98 year old woman whose mother gave her the middle name of 'Somm...

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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