Alas, not me

Alaric Hall in his article  Elves on the Brain: Chaucer, Old English, and Elvish  makes an excellent case for believing that in Chaucer'...

“Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long b...

Previously we have noted that parenthetical commentary appears and disappears as the story grows lighter and darker by turns, and that this ...

  Unsurprisingly, given what we've seen in Parts One , Two , and Three of this post, the narrator includes no lighthearted parenthetica...

As we saw in Part One and Part Two , the number of parenthetical comments rapidly declines from the first chapter onwards. Thirty-two pare...