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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27 February 2026

A Ghostly Link between Tolkien and Charles Williams?

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I was reading Charles Williams' 1945 novel All Hallows' Eve  yesterday morning. It's a rather spooky story, the first chapter of...
07 February 2026

"I will bear Frodo, though I do not know the way."

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So I was reading Tolkien et la mémoire de l'antiquité , or Tolkien and the Memory of Antiquity . It's a recent very interesting book...
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Foalókë & The Digital Tolkien Project -- How it Helps my Work, part 2

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At the end of last year I shared a post on how The Digital Tolkien Project helps my work, in particular in studying the story of Túrin as ...
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06 February 2026

Túrin's "tide of ill" in The Book of Lost Tales (LT II.87)

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In The Book of Lost Tales  the narrator of Túrin's story says of his choosing to pursue the orcs who had taken Failivrin (Finduilas) cap...
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04 January 2026

Once Upon A Time at City Hall

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About 20 years ago a friend invited me to attend her wedding ceremony at down at the Municipal Building down at City Hall in Manhattan. When...
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