One of the greatest shifts that occurs when moving from a modern magical worldview to a Tolkienian one is that nothing becomes magical because we impose meaning upon it. Rather, things become enchanted because we awaken to the meaning they already possess. This distinction is fundamental. In much of modern occultism, errands are considered interruptions to one’s “real” spiritual life. Grocery shopping, collecting prescriptions, driving across town, taking an Uber, waiting in queues—these are treated as spiritually empty intervals to be endured. Within Tolkien’s Legendarium, such a division scarcely exists. The world of Arda is not divided into sacred places and ordinary places. It is one great creation whose every…