A Philological Imagination 1
Tolkien’s imagination worked in a philological way. Apart from the well-known fact that his created world of Middle earth grew out of...
The Ups and Downs of Characters
If we go back to mythology and folklore, the hero of a story can have superhuman qualities and is often semi-divine in origin - in...
What Aragorn Had to Lose
Aragorn, in The Lord of the Rings, is clearly an archetypal warrior figure, of the kind described in the book How Stories Really Work....