Month: October 2020

Unrequited Love and Sméagol’s Doom

Unrequited Love and Sméagol’s Doom

Reading Time: 6 minutes On the toxicity of unrequited love In order to speak more about Gollum’s fall, I first want to bring up a poem by one of J. R. R. Tolkien’s contemporaries, W. H. Auden. (Tolkien and Auden died within a month of each other in September … [continue reading]