On Fantasy
Mention in a crowd of book-lovers that you
think J.R.R. Tolkien is the greatest fantasy author to ever live, and you’ll
likely be surprised at how little argument you receive. To be sure, there will
be some...
By Rob Bauer
If you’re enough of a Tolkien fan to read The
Silmarillion and visit a blog about Tolkienology, there’s probably not much
I can write you haven’t read before when it comes to The Silmarillion.
The sweep...
How does one even start a biography of one of the greatest English authors of all time? This is a brief biography, so we can’t start with his birth and move slowly forward, at least not in any detail....
by G. Russell Gaynor(a.k.a. Reiter)
My editor will tell you, my openings
are most often a troublesome thing. But this one is pretty easy.
Tolkien.
Did you...
Middle Earth is full of war, bloodshed, and history, but what about love? Can you find love hiding somewhere between The Shire and Sauron’s Mordor? Or are you going to find yourself on a hopeless quest for...
A somewhat random
thought occurred to me today – “I wonder what the critics thought of Tolkien’s
books when they were first published?” A lengthy research dive later, and I’m
happy to say, I’ve discovered some interesting answers to that question. Without
further...
by Ivana Zaharija
The inner world is an individual's own personal view of the world. It is most often different than that of any other individual, which in turn makes them unique. My own context is...
The Five Wizards, Part One - in case you missed it 🙂
Gandalf the Grey
appeared in print for the first time on September 21, 1937. The Hobbit received high praise from
critics (internal link to blog 4),...
