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Tolkien's mythos is a mirror, reflecting at a distance the themes and actions of many mythologies, but leaving at the center a space for his audience to see itself, and thus to participate in the story.

Frodo as a Wild Man... Interesting. So far, this collection of essays is truly enthralling.

"Memory is alive and active and always with us, Tolkien seems to be saying, not just in our eyes and in our ears, not just in our languages and the stories we tell and the books we read, but embedded in the deepest recesses of the world we live in and the deepest recesses of our minds which are at all times and in all circumstances that world's mirror."