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
A dragon’s hoard can look like a heap of glittering treasure, yet its meaning reaches well beyond wealth. In Tolkien’s Middle-earth, gold, weapons, cups,…
The Two Voices in One Throat When readers first meet the creature beneath the Misty Mountains, they are confronted with a strange duet issuing from a single…
J.R.R. Tolkien’s story of Beren and Lúthien is often remembered as the great love story of Middle-earth. A mortal exile enters the hidden kingdom of Doriath,…
The valley of Imladris, known in the common tongue as Rivendell, stands as one of the most enduring images of refuge in modern fantasy literature. From the…
Tolkien's published fiction leaves us with a richly populated Middle-earth, yet some of its most intriguing figures remain only partly drawn. The Rangers of…
The great houses of Middle-earth are rarely just families. They are living arguments about what the past owes the present, and what the present must do with…
Tolkien's narrative verse works like a palimpsest, where a single chant pressed onto the page carries the weight of an entire age. His battle hymns, those…
The Lord of the Nazgûl rides into the Pelennor Fields believing himself inviolable. Behind him lies the shattered gate of Minas Tirith, before him lie the…
Every reader of The Lord of the Rings carries away a private council of favourite moments. For some, the silhouette of Aragorn against the dawn at Minas Tirith…
Tolkien rarely lets a kingdom fall in a single battle. He prefers the slow unwinding of a realm whose heirs forget what their grandfathers understood, where…
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