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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26 May 2026

Tolkien and Clarke's Third Law: a Corollary

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law, as just quoted, is extra...
23 May 2026

Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age

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Here's a one-paragraph excerpt from something I'm working on, which has to do with children and heroic tales in Tolkien's legend...
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21 May 2026

"What really happened," or, "Was hat Ranke mit Tolkien zu tun?"

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 A name I often came across when I was in school studying history and how to write it was Leopold von Ranke (1795 - 1886) . Rather than try ...
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05 April 2026

Star Trek: "The Man Trap" -- the First Episode Ever Broadcast.

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 I have to admit when I watched the very first episode of Star Trek ever shown on television, there were lots of things I never noticed. Fir...
17 March 2026

"Fled from the Company" -- Frodo and Sam not looking back

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At the beginning of Book 4, in the chapter called "The Taming of Sméagol," there's a beautifully subtle little touch, a single...
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