Status Updates From The Road to Middle-Earth

So I realized, this brings to light a "conflict" in the literature world which I'd never considered but helps me understand all those lit classes in college while working toward an English degree where I always felt like (and was told by professors) that my ideas were drastically different from the rest of the class and profs. I'm on the philologist side, not the literary side. It's all so clear now!

(On what separates philologists from other literary or language scholars): “The sense that ghosts cluster in old libraries is very strong.”