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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20 March 2018

'You are grown up now' (RK 6.vii.996)

The Last Sight of Hobbiton Copyright © Ted Nasmith 'I am with you at present,' said Gandalf, 'but soon I shall not be. ...

04 March 2018

'I sit beside the fire and think' -- Home, Hearth, Hobbits

For Tolkien Reading Day, 25 March 2018 I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies...

16 February 2018

And thus was Númenor avenged (RK 6.iii.947)

"Queen Tar-Miriel and the Great Wave" © Ted Nasmith That Tolkien had a recurring dream of a great green wave rushing acro...

13 February 2018

'untouchable now by pity' -- Frodo on the slopes of Mt Doom (RK 6.iii.944)

Then suddenly, as before under the eaves of the Emyn Muil, Sam saw these two rivals with other vision. A crouching shape, scarcely ...

24 January 2018

The Last Word on Adventure -- TT 3.viii.711

'I guess that you have been having adventures, which is not quite fair without me.' Merry Brandybuck, A Conspiracy Unmask...

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