Alas, not me

If you look up the word gyst  -- 'guest, visitor, stranger, outsider, outlandish creature, enemy' -- in the Dictionary of Old Englis...

Shakespeare's Silmarillion: Melkor: do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will - Eru: Mine...

These days it is not unusual to hear that scholars must engage with the scholarship of other scholars. This is as it should be. We are not w...

Many readers will no doubt recall this fascinating passage in The Silmarillion  (20) which draws an equivalency between the life of the Vala...

  Almost five years back (2 March 2017) I wrote a post about what I took -- and still take -- to be Tolkien having a bit of fun with Chaucer...