Tag: Tolkien

  • Shakespeare’s “The Hobbit”

    Shakespeare’s “The Hobbit”

    Just before I begin: SPOILERS ALERT Recently I finished reading Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” (I know it’s a bit late, but took me quite a while to get back to the world of fantasy after studying lots of “literal” works) and I couldn’t help notice a certain similarity it bears with Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”. Just…