Sacnoth's Scriptorium

So, I've been re-reading David Lindsay's novel THE VIOLET APPLE and have come to a passage that puzzles me. What I know about girls...

 So, I've been invited to give a presentation at at this year's Oxonmoot, only a little over a month away. With Janice's help we...

So, here are three photos of Charles Noad, in his element: with fellow Tolkien scholars. This one I think dates from my first trip to Englan...

 So, congratulations to Bill Fliss, the keeper of Marquette University's Special Collection of J. R. R. Tolkien manuscripts, for winning...

Today I heard the news that one of my closest Tolkien friends has died.  Charles was the first fellow Tolkien scholar I met, back in 1981, w...

Just saw the news that there's danger of flash flooding in Stamps, Arkansas -- which is in Lewis County, which is adjacent to Columbia C...

So, thanks to Doug Anderson for his extremely useful post on his blog, giving the pronunciation of the names of several authors of fantasy o...