Tag: gollum
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Empathy for a Chance at Redemption
I had once heard that since it is easy to have empathy for people we like, the point of empathy is to have it for people we don’t. Though I agree with this and it was recently prominent in my mind, I now realize that the point of empathy is also to foster redemption. Following…
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A Roadmap to Fairyland: an “On Fairy-Stories” Analysis
The road to Faërie is a perilous one. For starters, the realm itself is indescribable (though not imperceptible). If we are to commit to this journey, “we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.” While in early development of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote an essay titled On Fairy-Stories in which…
The AM Intrigue 