Interesting parallel
Can't claim it, it's Thomas Honneger's observation, but I like it: Turin's return to Dor-Lomin as a subversion of Odysseus' return to Ithaca.
There's more classical influence in Tolkien than many realize
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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