The Modes of Fiction -An Introduction
Taking Aristotle as his starting point, Canadian academic Northrop Frye, in his ground-breaking book Anatomy of Criticism, classifies...
Tolkien and Frodo's Motivations
Earlier in this blog, I examined the development of the character at the heart of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins. I...
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...