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Professor Michael Drout: The Tower and the Ruin

Professor Michael Drout speaks to me about his fascinating and deeply moving new literary memoir cum detailed literary analysis The Tower and the Ruin…

Nov 23, 2025 • Benjamin Bassett

Reading Tolkien and History

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