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
The Dwarves of Tolkien's Middle-earth are among the most singular peoples of the legendarium — a race of stone-workers, fire-tenders, and keepers of ancestral…
When readers think of Middle-earth, the mind often travels first to high places — the Misty Mountains, the dark towers of Mordor, the white city of Minas…
Frodo Baggins was stabbed on the wind-bitten slopes of Weathertop, and although Strider drove the chief of the Nazgûl into retreat, the broken blade had…
The opening pages of the Silmarillion present music as the original creative act. Before there were stars, there was song. Tolkien suggests that making is…
The First Kinslaying at Alqualondë remains one of the most uncomfortable passages in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, a wound that refuses to heal in the long…
When Bilbo calls Frodo "to the very edge of the world and beyond," Tolkien frames departure as the loss of every hearth the hobbit has known. Hospitality in…
The Scouring of the Shire is one of the most unsettling passages in The Return of the King. After the vast campaigns of Middle-earth, readers might expect the…
The elves of the Woodland Realm are often remembered through images of green halls, swift arrows and a king with a crown of autumn leaves. In Tolkien’s…
When Théoden, king of Rohan, dies on the Pelennor Fields, Tolkien gives the reader more than a scene of heroic loss. The death of a mythical king becomes a…
There is a particular pleasure, familiar to anyone who has cracked open a copy of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, in unfolding the endpapers and finding…
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