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Faery Joy and Thomistic Elves in ‘Smith of Wootton Major’

Smith and the Faery Queen and her consort dance in the Vale of Evermorn, from the illustrated edition of Smith of Wootton Major by Pauline Baynes

Faery Joy and Thomistic Elves in ‘Smith of Wootton Major’

Published October 26, 2022 by Alexander

This will (hopefully) be an unusually short post from me, since it’s less a post in its own right, more a postscript to my discussion of Elves in The Hobbit…

“Pretty fair nonsense” – On Elvish frivolity in ‘The Hobbit’

Published October 3, 2022 by Alexander

Picture the Elf. Tall, serene, wise, beautiful. More graceful, more artistic, possessed of knowledge beyond our ken and in communion with nature and the world..