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, 2021
- 6 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, 2020
- 6 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, 2020
- 3 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, 2020
- 9 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, 2020
- 19 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, 2020
- 32 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, 2020
- 10 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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