Alas, not me

While analyzing the death scenes of Nienor Níniel and Túrin in the chapter "Turambar and the Foalókë" in The Book of Lost Tales , ...

Recently I was asked to present a 30 minute talk on the first five chapters of Book 4 of The Lord of the Rings . (When? Later in the summer....

The 2026 Tolkien Conference Switzerland , organized by the University of Zurich, the University of Lausanne, and Friedrich Schiller Universi...

I was reading Charles Williams' 1945 novel All Hallows' Eve  yesterday morning. It's a rather spooky story, the first chapter of...

So I was reading Tolkien et la mémoire de l'antiquité , or Tolkien and the Memory of Antiquity . It's a recent very interesting book...

At the end of last year I shared a post on how The Digital Tolkien Project helps my work, in particular in studying the story of Túrin as ...

In The Book of Lost Tales  the narrator of Túrin's story says of his choosing to pursue the orcs who had taken Failivrin (Finduilas) cap...

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...