Alas, not me

  Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring:   To Rule the Fate of Many by   Thomas P. Hillman A brief description As the magical ring Bilbo found...

Previously we have noted that parenthetical commentary appears and disappears as the story grows lighter and darker by turns, and that this ...

'Though [Bilbo] had found out that the [Ring] needed looking after; it did not seem always of the same size or weight; it shrank or expa...

To say definitively if the One Ring is or is not sentient may not in the end be possible. To do so would surely require an attentive and tho...

 Just this morning I was reflecting on the incantatory lines at the heart of the Ring verse: One Ring to rule them all, one ring to find the...

As we've seen before , Tolkien is hardly averse to slipping a bit of humor or even (gasp!) irony into his writing. We might not exp...

"Queen Tar-Miriel and the Great Wave" © Ted Nasmith That Tolkien had a recurring dream of a great green wave rushing acro...

Yes, Simon. There she is again Quite a few years ago now in his still highly relevant article, 'The Interlace Structure of The Lo...

In my recent Abraham, Wilfred, and John at The Pyre of Denethor ( RK  6.vii.850-57)  we saw how Tolkien and Owen each used Genesis 22 t...

The Parable of the Young Man and the Old So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as the...

© Jeff Murray As Merry tells his comrades of the storming of Isengard by the Ents, he doubts the accuracy of Saruman's previous re...

First the rather ridiculous, a couple of clerihews , none too good: Sauron Moron No Ring Nothing. *** Ar-Pharazôn Beyond compari...

'Dwarf-coat, elf-cloak, blade of the downfallen West, and spy from the little rat-land of the Shire.' ( RK  5.x.889) So spok...

... they let the River bear them on at its own pace, having no desire to hasten towards the perils that lay beyond, whichever course they t...