Showing posts with label Tolkien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tolkien. Show all posts
Monday, February 9, 2026

Struck dumb by Tolkien

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So much in Tolkien “hits different,” to use a popular catchphrase of the day. I think because it comes from a place of deep wisdom, so deep ...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

A couple of books I am looking forward to reading: The Tower and the Ruin; To Leave a Warrior Behind

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I don't know about you but my TBR pile is the size of a telephone pole. I have a towering pile of books I want to read, or re-read, and ...
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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Understanding The Lord of the Rings

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Ambush by Justin Gerard. Right now (with a brief diversion into REH for his 120th) it's all Lord of the Rings, all the time. Last weeken...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

JRR Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories"

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"For my part, I cannot convince myself that the roof of Bletchley station is more 'real' than the clouds. And as an artefact I ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Tom Barber memoir, LOTR 25th, and more

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A self-portrait from Tom's wild days in the west... Tom Barber’s Artists, Outlaws & Old Timers My friend Tom Barber has a memoir on ...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Create for the sake of creating, algorithm be damned; plus 3 cool things

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Some of the YouTube creators I follow have all voiced a similar lament in the past few weeks. Views are plunging. Old video types they used ...
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Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Merman’s Children by Poul Anderson: A review

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Anderson must have been pissed at the spelling of "Faery" Did magic exist, once upon a time? Did the creatures of Faerie roam the ...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

The day Hannah met Sam Gamgee (and called to tell me)

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My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English  soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far sup...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Death gives meaning to life

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Roy Batty is pissed. He is the peak of what a replicant can be. Brilliant and reflective. Handsome and powerful, a physical specimen. But de...
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

The Ring of the Nibelung/Roy Thomas and Gil Kane

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The Ring is mine! Over the course of my lifetime I’ve been exposed to Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung in many and various ways. T...
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Sunday, January 19, 2025

Blogging the Silmarillion--all parts linked

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I've finished uploading all my prior Blogging the Silmarillion posts. In hindsight I feel like I wrote as many words as The Silmarillion...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Blogging the Silmarillion--of faith and resisting despair

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I finished re-reading The Silmarillion last night and so will update the remainder of my prior posts on the book. I don’t have a whole lot ...
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Friday, January 3, 2025

Evil never dies: Parts 3 and 4 of Blogging the Silmarillion updated

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There is much goodness in Tolkien. But ample darkness, too. In The Lord of the Rings,  evil is exemplified in Sauron and the orcs and Shelob...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Silmarillion re-read, link to part 1 and letter to Milton Waldman

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White ships from Valinor, Ted Nasmith. I’m currently re-reading The Silmarillion and you can now find the full post of part 1 of my 2010 “B...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Re-reading The Silmarillion, and reviving my old Cimmerian posts

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I've started re-reading The Silmarillion . It's been a few years, and I'm due to revisit the rich and wonderful history of Middl...
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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Of the year in writing, and reading--memoir update and more

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I went outside yesterday to take in the trash barrel and pick up the mail (exciting stuff--I’m a rock star, in case you haven’t realized tha...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Sons of Albion awake: Of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur and Iron Maiden

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You'll probably want to read this. The King Arthur myth is ubiquitous and timeless because it is powerful and its themes universal. The...
Friday, October 11, 2024

More (mediocre) content is not better than no content: A rant

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Once in a while you’ve got to let off some steam ( Bennett) . For most, that means punching a heavy bag, screaming into a pillow, maybe goin...
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Thursday, August 15, 2024

The Battle of Evermore and the timeless nature of fantasy

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(early metal-ish Friday) That it is told in the language of fantasy is not an accident, or because Tolkien was an escapist, or because he wa...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Ruminations on subversive and restorative impulses, and conservative and liberal modes of fantasy fiction

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Two towers, old and new. Liberalism seeks to make anew. Conservatism desires to preserve the time-tested.  The former represents the creativ...
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