Originally posted on Rosamond Press:
J.R.Tolkien’s ‘The Lost Road’ begins thus; “Alboin. Alboin!” Alboin means ‘Elf-friend’. When I was eighteen I had Hippie elf-friends who I found in Tolkien’s Trilogy. One of them was Christine Wandel. One day she came into my small attic room with no window, lay down on the floor where I…