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'Dwarf-coat, elf-cloak, blade of the downfallen West, and spy from the little rat-land of the Shire.' ( RK  5.x.889) So spok...

‘Hey, Tom?’ ‘Yes, Allison.’ ‘There’s … somebody down at the front door, and, um, I think he wants to work here.’ ‘You mean he’s...

'Then you would have us retreat to Minas Tirith, or Dol Amroth, or to Dunharrow, and there sit like children on sand-castles when the...

‘Dad, is Avalon near here?’ ‘Avalon?  No, that's down by Cape May.’ ‘Not Avalon, New Jersey , Dad.   Avalon ...where King Arthu...

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 ...