Why You Should Skip the Prologue the First Time You Read “The Lord of the Rings”

Take it from a…

Were Tolkien’s Children the Inspirators of The Lord of the Rings?

Would Tolkien have written it, had…

One year of reading Tolkien (almost) every day

In the summer of 2017 I went on an adventure

ThereAndBackAgain Readalong

Tolkien’s Dwarves and the Evolution of the Silmarillion Through The Hobbit

The Fall of Númenor: Prof. Tolkien’s Reinvention of the Atlantis Myth

Tolkien was fascinated with the…

The Surprising Histories Behind Tolkien’s Stories of the War of the Ring

It’s the third anniversary of…

The Music of the Ainur and the Aesthetic of Sadness

Loss and sadness are at the heart of all of…

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I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror King under the Mountain! I return!

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Thranduil, the Elven-King Who Might Have Come from the First Age

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Gollum: Evolution of a Character Too Important to Remain in the Dark