Enchanted Rain and River-Daughter: Finding Hope in the House of Bombadil

The world is full of evil spells—but it is also full of counter-spells.

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As I stood on my deck the other day, watching incessant rain pouring down for the second day in a row, I found myself thinking of Goldberry. Who is she? One of the key themes in Tolkien’s On Fairy Stories is enchantment. For him, fairy-stories are not necessarily stories about fairies but about Fäerie—the enchanted realm.

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