Tolkien drew upon the Icelandic Sagas for TFoG: he uses the characteristic switch between past and present tense when there’s action, and he mentions a “housecarle”. On the last page of TFoG, Tolkien compares the elvish city of Gondolin to Babylon, Nineveh, Troy and Rome. The Sinking ...
“Good money drives out bad” is a law formulated by the City of London financier Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579). Good money is money that shows little difference between its nominal value (the face value of the coin) and its commodity value – the value of the metal of which it is m...
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