Status Updates From The Fall of Arthur

I was expecting just a short read, but this is a _fascinating_ book. It’s in fashion to oversimplify Tolkien’s skills — either as a mystical demigod genius, or as a blundering academic who accidentally inherited Timeless Themes™ from his dusty books. But when you show Tolkien’s deliberate methods of synthesizing existing material, it’s easy to see how deeply he understood what literature does.