Vocabulary from The Professor

[Legolas]

Those above were words I first discovered as a child.

I've learned a bit as an adult too. I came back across this word when composing another post. Wish I could use it more often!

One reader wants fuller details about Gandalf and the Necromancer. But that is too dark – much too much for Richard Hughes' snag. I am afraid that snag appears in everything; though actually the presence (even if only on the borders) of the terrible is, I believe, what gives this imagined world its verisimilitude. A safe fairy-land is untrue to all worlds. (Letter 17)