All literature enchants and delights us, recovers us from the 10,000 things that distract us. The unenchanted life is not worth living.
a decided improvement on "Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore," which is too transparently clever for its own good. The pacing here is better and the storytelling more persuasive.
© Alan Lee Few questions in all of Tolkien scholarship have proved more vexing than the identity and nature of Tom Bombadil. Is he a...
For Tolkien Reading Day, 25 March 2018 I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies...
In discussing Death as the Gift of Ilúvatar to Men, Tolkien once wrote that a "divine 'punishment' is also a divine ...
In one of the most disappointing scenes in the extended edition of Peter Jackson's film, The Fellowship of the Ring , Strider and t...
Last week an article about Tolkien's dislike of Disney's Snow White appeared at Atlas Obscura . The article quoted my f...