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What Tolkien Knew About Love
Like Henry Darger, he created an epic fantasy. Why is Tolkien remembered, and Darger nearly forgotten?
“Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raft-Elves,” an illustration for “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien, July 1937. Credit Bodleian Libraries, MS/The Tolkien Estate Limited 1937, via The Morgan Library & Museum.
“They Escape Again by Overpowering Guards" and "Are Seized by Pursuing Glandelinians,” by Henry Darger. Credit The Estate of Henry Darger/Art Resource, NY
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
Contributing Opinion Writer
Why I Take All My First Dates to Olive Garden
It starts with free wine samples, endless breadsticks, and keeping my expectations low.
BY KRISTEN N. ARNETT
What Tolkien Knew About Love
Like Henry Darger, he created an epic fantasy. Why is Tolkien remembered, and Darger nearly forgotten?
“Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raft-Elves,” an illustration for “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien, July 1937. Credit Bodleian Libraries, MS/The Tolkien Estate Limited 1937, via The Morgan Library & Museum.
“They Escape Again by Overpowering Guards" and "Are Seized by Pursuing Glandelinians,” by Henry Darger. Credit The Estate of Henry Darger/Art Resource, NY
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
Contributing Opinion Writer
Why I Take All My First Dates to Olive Garden
It starts with free wine samples, endless breadsticks, and keeping my expectations low.
BY KRISTEN N. ARNETT
