Alas, not me

Damn it.  When I was a little boy, Uhura always struck me as so calm, so perfectly poised, and so completely on top of everything she had to...

This year on Tolkien Reading Day I discussed the well-known tale of the inception of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth in a couple of lin...

Hjelm Island from Hjelm Dyb, photo courtesy of Dr. B. A. Kaiser                                    I just learned that there is a small isla...

In 'The Choices of Master Samwise', when Sam believes Frodo to be dead, his anguish leads him to contemplate his own death, by suici...

‘I shall get myself a bit into training, too,’ he said, looking at himself in a dusty mirror in the half-empty hall. He had not done any str...