The Poem Said Its Piece,

Unlike Peter Thiel and Giorgia Meloni, I did not grow up with “The Lord of the Rings” in my life, and, reading it now with my son, it’s hard to pinpoint what about it he finds so entrancing. (Occasionally, when Tolkien gets going about Balin, son of Fundin, and Aragorn, son of Arathorn, I have…