Alas, not me

The scene in The Two Towers where Gollum comes back down the stairs of Cirith Ungol to find Frodo and Sam asleep is remarkable for many reas...

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

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

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...

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