Tolkien’s Characters
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....
A Different Approach to Reading The Silmarillion
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...
The Five Wizards, Part Two
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...
Critical Reviews of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Books, Part One: The Hobbit and The Fellowship of...
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...
The Five Wizards
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...
Time and Distance in Lord of the Rings: Part One – The Hobbits
“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...
Tolkien’s Myth: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ideas of Fantasy and Fairy
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...
