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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29 September 2023

Wordplay in Colin Hardie's Latin Oration for Tolkien

In June 1972 Oxford University distinguished J. R. R. Tolkien by awarding him an honorary doctorate. At the ceremony Colin Hardie, the Class...

Chapter 5: "Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many"

22 September 2023

Chapter 4 of "Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many"

08 September 2023

Chapter3: The 1951 Hobbit and "The Shadow of the Past."

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,...

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