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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29 November 2015

The biter bit -- Gandalf and Sauron Share a Perspective

© Jeff Murray As Merry tells his comrades of the storming of Isengard by the Ents, he doubts the accuracy of Saruman's previous re...

13 November 2015

Nora Kershaw Chadwick Once More, Briefly

In my last post I mentioned that I had been unable to find a photo of Nora Kershaw Chadwick, and asked if anyone could help. A reader, John...

07 November 2015

The Pleasure of a Name Inked on a Page -- Nora Kershaw

Recently I posted a brief review of Simon Cook's J.R.R. Tolkien's Lost English Mythology , in which he argues that Tolkien's en...

03 November 2015

A Few Poems, mostly silly, from Mythgard's "Almost an Inkling" Writing Contest

First the rather ridiculous, a couple of clerihews , none too good: Sauron Moron No Ring Nothing. *** Ar-Pharazôn Beyond compari...

01 November 2015

So Sorry I Only Tore His Arm Off -- Beowulf 956-89

As I've mentioned here before, I've been working my way through Beowulf lately, pretty slowly and no doubt amateurishly, but I...

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