I sat down with Professor Michael D.C. Drout to talk about Tolkien.
But like most conversations worth having, it didn’t stay where it started!
We ended up talking about why some books don’t leave you alone. Not because they make you feel better, but because they tell you the truth. Tolkien does that. He doesn’t smooth things over. He doesn’t give you a neat ending. He shows you what it costs to love anything.
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Michael D.C. Drout is a professor of English and director of the Center for the Study of the Medieval at Wheaton College. He specializes in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin, and is the author of How Tradition Works and Drout's Quick and Easy Old English, among others. He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.