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...
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...
Origins
Wizards, pointy hat
and all, originated in some form long before Tolkien. Tolkien himself probably
drew on old descriptions of the Norse god Odin, who unlike the modern Marvel
rendition appeared most...
“One does not simply
walk into Mordor.” Sean Bean as Boromir, in Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring (film)
The famous line
uttered by Sean Bean as Boromir has provided countless...
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....
