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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15 August 2023

"What's all this about stock and stone?" -- Treebeard echoes Hesiod

"Wood and water, stock and stone, I can master." --- Treebeard The word "stock" here comes from Old English "stocc,...

10 August 2023

A Sample of Chapter 1 of "Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many"

30 July 2023

A Talk on Pity & Tolkien at the Interchanging Melodiess Summit

My thanks to all the good folks at Homebrewed Christianity for asking me to speak this weekend at the Summit.

25 July 2023

C. S. Lewis and William Shakespeare on Vergil

https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5836/portrait-of-virgil/ Several years back I published a post on echoes of Vergil in Shakespeare ...

23 July 2023

The Death of Melkor and the Life of the Elves

Thus spake Mandos in prophecy, when the Gods sat in judgement in Valinor, and the rumour of his words was whispered among all the Elves of t...

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