As we will see, the use of the word “angel” was used much less in the Boys Own Paper compared to the Girls, and the Boys paper focused far more on the possessive aspects of the angel in the house, while the Girls paper focused on the aspects of service and humility.

Of all the strange, monstrous, and marvelous creatures in Tolkien’s fiction, none has captured the public's attention as much as the crawling, slightly disturbing character of Gollum.

We all remember the scene at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring; all of us chuckled a bit when Galadriel handed Sam the Hobbit a coil of elven rope and he sheepishly asked for a nice shiny dagger instead. But for Tolkien, the scene of the Fellowship receiving Galadriel’s gifts was more than a convenient way to give the characters things they would need later in the plot.

As technology has grown and advanced, so too have our methods of communicating with others and our reach in the fight for human rights. However, communication is a two way street, and with the advent of modern technology it’s become even more confusing to tell which voices we should be listening to.