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Showing posts with label "Pity Power and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Pity Power and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many". Show all posts
11 October 2024

Prophecy, Hope, Despair, and Sorrow in "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen."

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Recently I have been reading Johm F. Whitmire Jr.'s interesting article, "An Archaeology of Hope and Despair in the Tale of Aragorn...
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24 August 2024

"Unfey, fearless, and his fate kept him" -- Túrin and Beowulf

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The Lay of the Children of Húrin  exists in two versions, neither of which tells the whole story its title promises. The second version is m...
14 June 2024

"You do not belong here" -- The presence of Men in Faërie

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  ...fairy-stories are not in normal English usage stories about fairies or elves, but stories about Fairy, that is Faërie , the realm or st...
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20 March 2024

Tolkien Tuesday -- "Pride and Prejudice" -- part 2 (Not All Elves!)

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After the composed and often wise Elves we meet in The Lord of the Rings , the dangerously passionate Elves of The Silmarillion  can come as...
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19 March 2024

Tolkien Tuesday -- "Pride and Prejudice"

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I had read The Lord of the Rings many times before I discovered Jane Austen. Yet the tone of the beginning sounded so familiar. I can easil...
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18 February 2024

Tempt me twice, shame on me -- Sam and the Ring

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Over at his blog, Joe Hoffman  has thoughtfully suggested that Sam's moment of temptation by the Ring is not in fact his grand vision of...
06 February 2024

Arwen's Green Grave

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"... and she went out from the city of Minas Tirith and passed away to the land of Lórien, and dwelt there alone under the fading trees...
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12 January 2024

Week 027 - Fandom Friday: Pity, Power, and a Chat with Tom Hillman

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04 January 2024

"Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many" -- Exploring the Lord of the Rings, Session 287

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07 December 2023

Pity chapter 11

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29 November 2023

Pity Chapter 10

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26 November 2023

Reddit AMA -- Friday 1 December at 4:30 PM ET

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Please join me on reddit this Friday when I'll be answering questions about Tolkien and my book. r/tolkienfans tolkienfans.reddit.com u/...
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20 November 2023

Pity, Power and Tolkien's Ring (and more!) -- interview with The Tolkien Collector's Guide

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16 November 2023

Pity Chapter Nine

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