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Showing posts with label Tolkien. Show all posts
20 February 2023

Pre-order 'Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many'

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Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many  now has a publication date -- 12/12/2023 -- and an ISBN: 9781606354711 . A fe...
10 February 2023

The Avoidance of 'Sin' in Tolkien

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          In my forthcoming book, Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many , I discuss Tolkien's use of the Greek w...
21 January 2023

"Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring" shortlisted for The Tolkien Society Best Book Award 2024

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  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...
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28 November 2022

Tolkien between two publishers, feeling like a fool

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14 April 1950 Dear Unwin, It was odd that our letters crossed. I might have waited a day longer; but the matter is for me becoming urgent. W...
19 August 2021

Review: 'The Apprenticeship of J. R. R. Tolkien' by Simon J. Cook

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  Simon Cook is one of the most thoughtful and perceptive Tolkien scholars of this generation. His insights into Tolkien's relationship ...
28 February 2021

Temptation, all I never wanted -- Old Tom and the One Ring

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Speaking of Tom Bombadil in a letter to Naomi Mitchison in 1954 (Letter no. 144, p. 178-79) Tolkien wrote: Tom Bombadil is not an important ...
25 February 2021

A Brief Note on "Exploring 'The Lord of the Rings'" episode 174

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In discussing Elrond's commentary on the stories of Frodo and Gandalf in The Council of Elrond , Corey Olsen had occasion to wonder how...
25 January 2021

Ents that are and Ents that En't.

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The other day on episode 193of the  The Prancing Pony Podcast Alan and Shawn were discussing Treebeard's statement to Merry and Pippin ...
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17 December 2020

Eucatastrophae non sunt multiplicandae praeter necessitatem.

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‘The birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man’s history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This stor...
14 December 2020

A thought on the 'sentience' of the Ring

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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...
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26 November 2020

From Lady Philosophy to Gollum: 'The roots of those mountains must be roots indeed' (FR 1.ii.54)

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In telling Gollum's story to Frodo, Gandalf introduces him as follows: 'Long after, but still very long ago, there lived by the bank...
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24 August 2020

Σοφιστής and 'Saruman', part two

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Recently  I suggested that 'Saruman' is Tolkien's rendering into Old English of the Ancient Greek σοφιστής. Last night I discove...
08 August 2020

Σοφιστής and 'Saruman', or, Tolkien at play in the fields of philology

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Every now and then I see a connection that has been staring me in the face for a long time, one of those connections that seems unbelievably...
01 July 2019

'When we are enchanted' -- Mortal Men, Arda, and Faërie

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The Light of Valinor © Ted Nasmith In her paper, 'The Perilous Realm: Faërie and the Numinous in Tolkien', presented at Mythmo...
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04 October 2015

The Sand-Castles of Dol Amroth (RK 5.ix.878)

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'Then you would have us retreat to Minas Tirith, or Dol Amroth, or to Dunharrow, and there sit like children on sand-castles when the...
15 July 2015

Is That An Allusion To Ulmo and Tuor in "The Great River" (FR 2.ix.380-81)?

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... 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...
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