On September 15, the first volume of a two-volume work entitled Theology & Tolkien will be be published by Fortress Academic. I have...

Several years ago, I wrote a lengthy blog post titled The Bombadil Enigma. In it, I examined the decades-long debate surrounding the...

I think about strange things sometimes, and recently one of those strange things was a question concerning the Lord of the Rings films. I...

For many adult readers of The Hobbit, the amount of apparent good luck enjoyed by Bilbo Baggins and his companions on their adventure can...

There is a scene near the end of The Lord of the Rings that has brought tears to the eyes of many readers. The hobbits Sam and Frodo have...

Although The Lord of the Rings is my favorite of Tolkien’s works, I think the Ainulindalë may be his most beautiful work. The Ainulindalë...

It has now been almost twenty years since the release of the first film in Peter Jackson’s movie version of The Lord of the Rings. Those...

In Tolkien’s Legendarium, Arda is the name of the world in which we still live and in which the major events concerning elves and men are...

WARNING: This is a rather lengthy Lord of the Rings post on a subject of interest to only a handful of people in the inhabited universe....

Anyone who knows me at all knows that I am a J. R. R. Tolkien enthusiast. I’m not sure exactly what my ranking is on the Tolkien nerd...