...or is that an oxymoron to Tolkien?
Curious, thanks once again. I'm skimming with little time to post.
I was going to challenge the use of this term, and then I saw that you had
already done so. I do believem however, that the phrase has become a bit
more common, thus a bit more general--I can almost buy such a reading if one
claimed that nature is a higher power in Tolkien--the embodiment of a/the
diety--thus the hurons coming (assuming they were coming on their own volition,
which is made problematic by Gandalf's disappearance/reappearance, and his
connection w/ the old forest) would be an application of the phrase in
question.
Not all those who wander are lost.