Hopkins
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Tom Bombadil the Kingfisher
In my last post, I wrote that Tom Bombadil can be said to represent Arda Unmarred. In this post, I want to talk about what kind of person Tom is and one of the ways Tolkien subtly communicates this to us. When we first meet Tom in The Lord of the Rings, he has a… Continue reading
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Tolkien and Gerard Manley Hopkins
Holly Ordway, the author of Tolkien’s Modern Reading and the forthcoming Tolkien’s Faith, has a new book out called As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Selected and Annotated Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. As a fan of Hopkins’s poetry, it got me thinking about whether Ordway’s forthcoming Tolkien’s Faith will include any new details about Tolkien’s connection… Continue reading
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