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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24 April 2016

Gollum before The Taming of Sméagol (V)

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In the first study of this series I proposed considering only the references to Gollum that we find in The Lord of the Rings  prop...
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01 April 2016

Who is Tom Bombadil

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  ©  Alan Lee Few questions in all of Tolkien scholarship have proved more vexing than the identity and nature of Tom Bombadil. Is he a...
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31 March 2016

You Sometimes Find Funny Things in the Index

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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

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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 ...

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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...
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