Theology & Tolkien
On September 15, the first volume of a two-volume work entitled Theology & Tolkien will be be published by Fortress Academic. I have...
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Mar 31, 20235 min
The Bombadil Enigma, Part Two: The Mroczkowski Letter
Several years ago, I wrote a lengthy blog post titled The Bombadil Enigma. In it, I examined the decades-long debate surrounding the...
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Mar 9, 20216 min
The Luck O' The Hobbit
For many adult readers of The Hobbit, the amount of apparent good luck enjoyed by Bilbo Baggins and his companions on their adventure can...
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Sep 18, 20206 min
Good and Evil in the Lord of the Rings
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...
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Jul 28, 20203 min
Tolkien's Most Beautiful Work
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...
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Jul 17, 20209 min
Lord of the Rings: The Peter Jackson Remix
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...
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Jun 25, 202019 min
The Silmarillion: A Tale of Two Endings
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...
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Jun 16, 202032 min
The Bombadil Enigma
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....
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Jun 6, 202010 min
What Hath Gondor to do with Geneva?
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...
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