Pilgrimage

I stood at the foot of the ramp leading up to the Morgan Library for a few minutes, drawing deep breaths and staring up at the heavy, tinted glass doors. This is it, I thought. I’m finally going to see Tolkien’s work in person. I’d been trying to make my way to this once-in-a-generation exhibit for quite some time–since last semester (Fall 2018), to be exact, when it opened at the Bodleian in Oxford, England. But funding for international travel for graduate students is slim, especially when that travel doesn’t involve giving a presentation, and even more so when the graduate student is a lowly MARead More →