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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13 August 2026

Dominus Litis: Smear, smear, whoever you may be. I am the Lord of the Smear said he.

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 I ran across the Latin legal phrase dominus lÄ«tis  the other day, which means "the master of the suit." According to The Law Dict...
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11 July 2026

Treebeard on Tom Bombadil

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In view of the recent news that Tolkien once said in a letter previously unpublished that Treebeard knew more about what was going on in Th...
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07 June 2026

"Galadriel," he murmured.

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At the bottom of the Emyn Muil, Sam and Frodo realize that they would have to leave the Elven rope behind which they had used to descend the...
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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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