The Rohan Plains: One of the compositions where I have perhaps expressed better melancholy, the deep sadness that sometimes a Tolkien reader feels. Not the oppressive, violent sadness without hope, which the XX Century has got us used to, but…
Baccador – First Draft: The Lords of the Rings includes different landscapes that I would describe as dazzling in their beauty, and the Hobbit's arrival in Tom Bombadil's house is one of these. Tolkien talks about Gandalf (or, better, makes…
Spring in Lothlórien – Third Draft: How many of us dream of an uncontaminated place, not corrupted by the world's evil where to be in peace for a while in search of ourselves? Beyond the easy rhetoric, a few writers…