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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07 November 2025

"Foul" and "Vile" in The Book of Lost Tales

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The Book of Lost Tales  uses the words "foul" and "vile" in pretty much the way you'd expect. "Foul" descr...
04 November 2025

Númenor: the Downfall is in the Details

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Tolkien speaks of (some of) the names the island we mostly call Númenor in three different versions of "The Fall of Númenor," and ...
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31 October 2025

From a Gift in Death to the Gift of Death: Túrin and the Doom of Men

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In The Book of Lost Tales  death is not the Gift of Ilúvatar to Men, at least not in the sense we usually think of it, and perhaps not at al...
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18 October 2025

A sad tale of Milton Waldman, to whom Tolkien wrote a famous letter

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Lately, I've spent a fair amount of time reading, outlining, and thinking about Tolkien's famous letter (# 131) to Milton Waldman of...
12 October 2025

What Stuck With Me From All Those Years In Catholic School

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I haven't attended regular church services in a very long time. So I am not at all religious in that sense. Growing up, I did, and I had...
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