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
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…
Many readers first meet Bilbo Baggins in childhood, when the book is borrowed from a school library. The story has long been filed under children's fiction in…
Tolkien’s Elves are often associated with forests, starlight and ancient memory, yet the sea is one of the strongest forces shaping their emotional lives. The…
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is filled with objects that carry weight beyond their physical form. The One Ring anchors the central plot, the shards of…
The black needle of Orthanc rises above the broken circle of Isengard like a fang left in an old wound, four hundred feet of dark stone polished by ages and…
The languages of Tolkien’s Elves are far more than decorative names scattered across The Lord of the Rings. Quenya and Sindarin carry the history of migration,…
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