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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21 March 2018

Icarus, Bruegel, Auden

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Detail of "Icarus", by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Musée des Beaux Ar...
20 March 2018

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

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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

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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...
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16 February 2018

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

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"Queen Tar-Miriel and the Great Wave" © Ted Nasmith That Tolkien had a recurring dream of a great green wave rushing acro...
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13 February 2018

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

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