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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19 June 2024

The Politeness of Théoden and the Healing of Gandalf

In his new book The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien , Nick Birns has written a very interesting chapter called ...

14 June 2024

"You do not belong here" -- The presence of Men in Faërie

...fairy-stories are not in normal English usage stories about fairies or elves, but stories about Fairy, that is Faërie , the realm or st...

20 March 2024

Tolkien Tuesday -- "Pride and Prejudice" -- part 2 (Not All Elves!)

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...

19 March 2024

Tolkien Tuesday -- "Pride and Prejudice"

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...

07 March 2024

Forgetting the Way to Faërie -- a bit of L. M. Montgomery and Tolkien

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...

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