It’s been a moment between posts, alas, the end of the year’s always a hot mess for me and completely killed the momentum I was slowly building in posting – and I’ve been completely unmotivated to do anything extracurricular at all for quite a while, blog writing included. I did notice a little detail that can be covered relatively quickly, though, and figured that I might as well jot it down and that it might get the creative juices flowing again! Namely, the detail of Bilbo being chosen (at least in part) to join Thorin’s Company to avoid their number…
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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…
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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..
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As feats of worldbuilding go, it is hard to go past Tolkien’s Legendarium as the chief and foremost example of the craft. Even those who have a passing…
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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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