In George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin (1872), the beautiful young princess Irene lives in a fantasy kingdom, fair and courteous in…
In the fourth canto of Queen Mab (1813) Shelley looks forward to the day when the ‘poison-tree’ of tyranny will have been felled:
From Dragon magazine issue #4. Now I just have to work out what ‘etal’ means.
So my reread moves from The Fellowship of the Ring (Book 1 here, Book 2 here) onto…
[The Greek from which this has been translated is here]
[Part 1 of this reread is here]
:1:
What I knew about the original publication of The Lord of the Rings I gleaned from Humphrey…
μεγαλοπόλιες ὦ Συράκοσαι …”
