dreams

in on fairy stories tolkien talks of the sorts of tales he liked as a lad, and we hear of his merely lukewarm interest in Carroll's Alice and in pirates; he then says "Red Indians were better: there were bows and arrows ... and strange languages, and glimpses of an archaic mode of life, and...

On my current re-read of LOTR, I'm tracking the various times that Frodo or any of the other hobbits have a dream, or a vision. I have always noticed partway through that they seem to keep having them. Especially Frodo. RIght now I'm nearing the end of Book 1 - several pages into "A Knife in...

So i was having this dream where "I am not kidding". I was making arguments for why race swapping cats in movies was wrong. Too much internet, too much internet. But i ended up woking up, due to a scary imagery of a orange cat with a teddy bear looking down closed stairs, in a midday rain. Had...

This thought came to me as I have been doing my reread of the Trilogy these past few weeks, and it was also inspired by the thread created by @Mr.Underhill about if dreams/nightmares can have any practical/functional meaning in waking life. The thought is... just what exactly are Elvish...