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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30 October 2015

Gollum before The Taming of Sméagol (IV)

What the reader learns about Gollum by the end of The Council of Elrond comes in two parallel phases at the beginning of Books One and...

24 October 2015

Under the Shadow of the Argonath -- The Last of Strider (FR 2.ix.393)

The Pillars of the Kings © Ted Nasmith 'Fear not!' said a strange voice behind him. Frodo turned and saw Strider, and yet not S...

20 October 2015

Hellehinca, or Morgoth the Lame

Fingolfin's Challenge, © John Howe Readers of The Silmarillion will recall Fingolfin's hopeless challenge of Morg...

18 October 2015

'In which case it is no longer white' -- The Exeter Book and Saruman

In the 'Riming Poem' in the Exeter Book ( Thorpe, p. 354, ll. 57-62 ) appear the following verses: Searo hƿít solaþ sumur hát có...

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 ...

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