Alas, not me

In my post on this subject on  9 May 2020  I did not comment on Sam's use of 'stern' to describe how he saw Frodo 'with ...

'Precious, precious, precious!' Gollum cried. 'My Precious! O my Precious!' And with that, even as his eyes were lifted up ...

While working on the scenes at Mt Doom lately, I have been staring a lot at the passage quoted just below, and reflecting on the description...

As we've seen before , Tolkien is hardly averse to slipping a bit of humor or even (gasp!) irony into his writing. We might not exp...

This is probably my favorite fictional example of the reception of the myth of Oedipus. Captain Jack Aubrey is on deck speaking t...