I have been so inundated with posts that I decided to do a links post of my own, with one piece for each of them - Exhibit Asterisk, Razib Khan, and the rest. It is close to finished. Often it was hard to choose. But over at Grim's it was impossible. The first three out of just the usual fare all insisted on being in the collection. I stopped there. You need to make him a habit.
Tolkien's own tune for the Dwarves' song at the beginning of The Hobbit about smashing the plates. Marvelous! I didn't know it even existed!
And in true Tolkien fashion, Grim looks out at recent changes in the possible struggles we have before us and concludes that what is needed is courage. To Make Peace, To Make War.
Thomas Doubting comments thoughtfully on Grim's essays on Epitectus, asking whether it is true that our body is not our own, and what the consequences of that are.
I like Tolkien's tune a lot. I had no notion he could create tunes, which, as far as I am concerned, is a black art. You might also like the "dwarf songs" of Clamavi de Profundis, a group which started out as an all-bass group, though they have added higher voices later. They specialize in Latin music and Tolkien, though they also do stuff of their own. Here:
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