Alas, not me

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...

Upon meeting Merry and Pippin, Treebeard exchanges names with them. As he does so, he teaches them about the connection between the name of ...

Before I retired I listened to several podcasts while driving back and forth to work. For me, driving seemed the best time. Now I don't ...

 

In January 1948 Tolkien said something to C. S. Lewis that hurt him. In Letter #113 Tolkien continues what appears to be a longer conversati...

This is a lighthearted not terribly serious post. It's a joke really. So nobody stones anybody, okay? The other night I came across a pa...

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In his introduction to the Lay of Leithian  in The Lays of Beleriand , Christopher Tolkien writes:  My father never explained the name Leith...

In the Ainulindalë  Melkor chooses to follow his own will rather than the design of Ilúvatar and to usurp the act of creation ( S  16-17). I...