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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31 March 2016

You Sometimes Find Funny Things in the Index

In the index to Tolkien's Letters we find the following three entries back to back under 'Tolkien ... Works -- Principal Writings...

And Yet Remain Evil -- Some Parallels in Tolkien and Sassoon

Recently I've been reading Siegfried Sassoon's The Memoirs of George Sherston , a series of three novels which tell of the title c...

24 March 2016

A Clerk of Oxford: 'This doubtful day of feast or fast': Good Friday ...

I just read this today, and I am so impressed that I wanted to pass it on. Read this. A Clerk of Oxford: 'This doubtful day of feast o...

09 March 2016

Talk a Walk with the Inklings on 15 March 2016

Next week at 8PM EST on 15 March please come and join the Inklings as they take a walk together on twitter. We will...

06 March 2016

'Wraiths!' he wailed. 'Wraiths on Wings' -- (TT 4.ii.629-30)

Winged Messenger © Nick Marshall [ Gollum ] went on again, but his uneasiness grew, and every now and again he stood up to his full ...

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