The Spirit of Rivendell: Where Words Are Born, Not Found
Birthing metaphors is like bearing children.
When Frodo first bumps into Bilbo in Rivendell, Bilbo is composing a poem.
“If you want to know, you… have disturbed me — in the middle of making up a song. I was stuck over a line or two, and was thinking about them; but now I don’t suppose I shall ever get them right.… I shall have to get my friend the Dunadan to help me.”
When I read tha…
