jazzfish | Do Balrogs Have Wings? (Reply)

How to Mis-Read Lord of the Rings, which I tend to misremember as being titled "Do Balrogs Have Wings?" or "Is Tolkien Actually Any Good?", by Andrew Rilstone. From early 2002, when LotR-mania was still a new enough thing to be remarkable and there was only the one Harry Potter movie.

This is one of my favourite essays, and I'm tired of having to trawl through the Internet Archive to find it, so, enjoy.

(It's included in a volume of Andrew's essays, but the ebook appears to be Kindle-only, which, no.)

Crossposts: https://jazzfish.livejournal.com/642509.html

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"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

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