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Having not noticed this for many years and multiple re-readings; I have become increasingly aware of the ways in which Frodo's - illegitimate - use of the One Ring, and expectations of using the One Ring, prepared the ground for his inability to destroy The Ring when he arrived at the cracks of doom on March 25. 

Significant was Frodo's first, and frivolous, use of The ...


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Just as Shakespeare gave the monster Caliban some of the most haunting words in The Tempest; so Tolkien gives Gollum some of the most evocative passages in The Lord of the Rings. 
Gollum is not only surprisingly well-informed; but during the time he is (mostly) dominated by his Smeagol persona, and remembers his early life - he is capable of poetry. 
Here are three of ...

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It was only on my most recent, present, read through of The Lord of the Rings (and after more than 50 years of re-reading!) that I suddenly noticed the puzzling situation of Gandalf the White being in Fangorn Forest and in the vicinity of Treebeard's observatory hill, to be seen by Treebeard two days before Merry and Pippin met Treebeard, and still present two days lat...


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