Introducing Tolkien Fans to the Western Canon
“Better vessels than you have I never seen.”
Above: a scene from Ivanhoe. There has been a steady incline in popularity of the delightfully entertaining novels written by the brilliant author J. R. R. Tolkien. This is largely indebted to the fact that Hollywood has made 16 hours-worth of impressive epic film on these stories. I enjoy them and so do many people in my age group. This fascination, however, is something that the older…