Self-Knowledge

I was talking to someone the other day. Someone I love. Someone with whom I have great conversations. In the midst of one of them, they shared with me, quite casually, that over the past year, not one, but three individuals confided in them that they identify as Tolkien elves. By Tolkien, I mean J.R.R. (aka John Ronald Reuel), the Oxford scholar and author of The Lord of the Rings...