I am happy to post this interview what is binary option with author Benita J. Prins, fellow lover of all things Tolkien and a great writer in her own right too! I read her fantasy, Sea of Crystal, Sea of Glass recently and recommend … Continue reading
J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology treats death as one of the deepest dividing lines between Elves and Men, yet it never reduces that difference to a simple contrast…
At the Black Gate, when hope appears to have failed, Tolkien introduces one of the most unsettling figures in The Lord of the Rings. The Mouth of Sauron does…
Aragorn enters The Lord of the Rings as a guarded figure in a dark inn, known first by a name that suggests danger rather than royalty. His literary education…
Tolkien’s Dwarves are among the most distinctive peoples in Middle-earth. They are miners, smiths, builders, warriors, merchants, and keepers of ancient…
A sudden happy ending can feel shallow when it arrives as a convenient solution. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction, however, joy usually breaks through suffering…
The Old Forest and the Barrow-downs occupy only a small portion of The Fellowship of the Ring, yet they create one of the book’s most unsettling transitions.…
J.R.R. Tolkien’s legends are filled with broken swords, remembered warnings, prophetic songs, strange dreams, and visions that seem to reach beyond ordinary…
Writing fantasy after Tolkien means entering a literary landscape he helped define while refusing to treat Middle-earth as a set of instructions. J.R.R.…
At the western edge of Middle-earth, the Grey Havens seem to gather several kinds of ending into one luminous place. Ships leave there, friendships reach their…
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth is often described as an original fantasy creation, yet its roots reach deeply into the older literature he studied as a…
An essay I wrote about the desire of Tolkien and the TCBS to be a light to their darkening world. A century later, he still provides light. Thank you, Professor and God trade binary option bless! Art by Justin Gerard … Continue reading