Alas, not me

Continued from Part One Túrin at the Last Battle Clearly, in "the sons of the Valar" and "the sons of the Gods" the mart...

Two sections at the end of the 1937 "Quenta Silmarillion" record a prophecy which is familiar to many as The Second Prophecy of Ma...

I just noticed this a little while ago. I was reading Faramir’s declaration of love to Éowyn in “The Steward and the King.” One word jumped...

The difficulty many of us face in understanding Tom Bombadil arises from the fact that he is part of nature and we all too often think of o...

As was widely noted back in May of this year Pope Leo XIV quoted Tolkien in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas , specifically Gandalf's ...