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"Pork-pie peril" and a plot-loop on the Barrow Downs?1 week

Since my earliest readings of The Lord of the Rings, I have felt that there is "something wrong" with the Barrow Wight episode in the chapter "Fog on the Barrow Downs" (FotBD).
At first, there was just my vague awareness "doesn't seem to work" as well as the rest of the book; that it fails to make an impact.
There is a nagging sense that the Barro...

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Tolkien's subcreated world in Not a modern "myth"3 weeks

Tolkien's subcreation - his Legendarium as a whole - is often described as a modern "myth" or its mythic qualities are emphasized. I do not think this is correct, because of a quality of myth that seems essential, but is distinct from the situation with Tolkien's work.

I will first describe what I regard as an essential attribute of a myth - which is that a...

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