Showing posts with label Tolkien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tolkien. Show all posts
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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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Feeling like it's time to watch these again

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Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets? I have. To this book . And to the movies. But it's been a while....
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Thursday, October 6, 2022

Secret Fire

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What is the “fire” borne by characters and otherwise present in the works of Cormac McCarthy and J.R.R. Tolkien? “I am a servant of the Secr...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Top 10 reasons why I don’t care about Amazon’s The Rings of Power

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The Rings of... Meh. Perhaps you might be wondering, hey, when is that guy from The Silver Key going to weigh in on The Rings of Power? He l...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Before They Are Hanged, some thoughts on Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy

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Some hanging... much stabbing. I'm now two-thirds of the way through Joe Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy, having just finished the secon...
Friday, September 9, 2022

Blood Tears, Blind Guardian

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Today's Metal Friday is a cut off Nightfall in Middle-Earth by the great Blind Guardian. "Blood Tears" is typical of the work ...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

S&S updates: Dunsany, New Edge, book deals, and a fine response to a troubling essay

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Hail to the King of Dreams, baby. A roundup of recent-ish news and updates on the sacred genre. My most recent essay for Tales from the Magi...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Fantasy without Tolkien? Yes that happened, and yes it matters.

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My latest post is up on the blog of DMR Books: "Fantasy without Tolkien? Yes that happened, and yes it matters." Check it out here...
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Thursday, January 27, 2022

Tolkien’s Modern Reading: A review

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Tolkien: Not just for medieval scholars, anymore. Given that Tolkien was not the first to write secondary-world fantasies for adult readers,...
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Sunday, December 19, 2021

20 year anniversary of the Fellowship of the Ring/LOTR films

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I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3,000--err 20--years ago. 20 years ago today New Line Cinema and director Peter Jackson delivered unto the...
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