If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Day: January 18, 2020
Tolkien’s Legacy
The death of Christopher Tolkien as a nonagenarian ends a legacy, for it was this youngest son of the great J.R.R. that took – pardonnez le pun – good care of his father’s inimitable work. And imitated it has been, many, many times over, all to paler effect. For unlike the fantasy genre to which[…]