A timely link

[rhu]

The blog "Davar Acher" has an interesting review of Tolkien's translation of Jonah. The megillah of Jonah, of course, is one of the main portions of the Yom Kippur liturgy. I recommend this review, which ends most powerfully with a discussion of the book's final verse:

These people are stupid and ignorant and evil and despised, yet even they would have been forgiven had they only repented. What’s stopping you?