Alas, not me

  Some months back John Garth and I were discussing the phrase "Mani Aroman," which is found in The Return of the Shadow as a pos...

Recently I saw someone somewhere inline asking about Gandalf's characterization of Gollum in The Shadow of the Past .   The most inquisi...

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 ...

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

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...