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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17 February 2025

Pearls before swine, Aelfric of Eynsham, and the catherdral at Chartres

Aelfric, pulling no punches and insulting his congregation, while delivering a sermon on Job: "Wē sǣdon ēow and ġȳt secgað þæt wē ne m...

16 February 2025

"a path of ascent however hard" -- Tolkien to Lewis on the mysteries and opportunities of pain (Letters² #113)

In January 1948 Tolkien said something to C. S. Lewis that hurt him. In Letter #113 Tolkien continues what appears to be a longer conversati...

20 January 2025

A Point about Elf Ears

This is a lighthearted not terribly serious post. It's a joke really. So nobody stones anybody, okay? The other night I came across a pa...

17 December 2024

Fahrenheit 2451 Conference -- A Call for Papers

Register for the conference and submit your abstract at IdeasWorthSaving.org

16 December 2024

Lúthien Unbound?

In his introduction to the Lay of Leithian in The Lays of Beleriand , Christopher Tolkien writes: My father never explained the name Leith...

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