Alas, not me

The Digital Tolkien Project , founded by my friend, James Tauber, and brought to life by James with the help of so many dedicated and talent...

If you've ever seen the wonderful British show "As Time Goes By," you probably remember one of the running gags early on. (If ...

Joseph Wright was a remarkable man, especially for his day. He was born in a time when the children of poor families only rarely learned to...

 ‘I cannot read the fiery letters,’ said Frodo in a quavering voice.  ‘No,’ said Gandalf, ‘but I can. The letters are Elvish, of an anc...

The scene in The Two Towers where Gollum comes back down the stairs of Cirith Ungol to find Frodo and Sam asleep is remarkable for many reas...

The Book of Lost Tales  uses the words "foul" and "vile" in pretty much the way you'd expect. "Foul" descr...

Tolkien speaks of (some of) the names the island we mostly call Númenor in three different versions of "The Fall of Númenor," and ...

In The Book of Lost Tales  death is not the Gift of Ilúvatar to Men, at least not in the sense we usually think of it, and perhaps not at al...

Lately, I've spent a fair amount of time reading, outlining, and thinking about Tolkien's famous letter (# 131) to Milton Waldman of...

  War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor...

It is well known that in 1938 a German Publisher, Rütten & Loening, contacted Tolkien about publishing a German translation of The Hobbi...