LotR -- Book 1 - Chapter 07 - In the House of Tom Bombadil

[Mister Underhill]

A new job has seriously impaired my Downs-time and my ability to keep up with, let alone contribute to, these book discussions. But this:

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

There seem, at first glance, to be a lot of dei ex machinae in Tolkien... Indeed, Tolkien's very notion of "eucatastrophe" would seem to involve this kind of thing.

...made me think of an interesting old conversation on the topic of deus ex machina.