Alas, not me

After the composed and often wise Elves we meet in The Lord of the Rings , the dangerously passionate Elves of The Silmarillion  can come as...

I had read The Lord of the Rings many times before I discovered Jane Austen. Yet the tone of the beginning sounded so familiar. I can easil...

Well, the Story Girl was right. There is such a place as fairyland—but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is...

Over at his blog, Joe Hoffman  has thoughtfully suggested that Sam's moment of temptation by the Ring is not in fact his grand vision of...

"... and she went out from the city of Minas Tirith and passed away to the land of Lórien, and dwelt there alone under the fading trees...