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 ....
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....