I’ll never forget the first time I saw a dragon. I was six years old, a precocious and likely slightly annoying reader, with an overactive imaginat…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about narrative ‘canon’ recently. I’ve also written and rewritten this blog post a couple of times, to try and make sure I…
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I have been thinking recently on one of the more glaring textual problems in LOTR, a seeming error from the normally meticulous pen of Professor Tolkien. At…
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It is a strange and (to the best of my knowledge) unobserved tragedy that one of the greatest failures of the Lord of the Rings is on the part of Sam. Did I…
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Of all the arts, dance might be the one I most struggle to engage with. I’ve watched and tolerated various forms of ballroom and/or competitive dance and…
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