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...

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

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...

"... and she went out from the city of Minas Tirith and passed away to the land of Lórien, and dwelt there alone under the fading trees...

In 'The Choices of Master Samwise', when Sam believes Frodo to be dead, his anguish leads him to contemplate his own death, by suici...

Fingolfin's Challenge © John Howe 2003 Plutarch's Agesilaos  tells the story of a power struggle for the throne of ancient S...

Alan Lee © 2007  Many of us no doubt first encountered alliterative verse in Tolkien, in the scene where Aragorn first chants in th...

Alan Lee © 2007 One of the strangest sidelights on the long dark tale of Túrin Turambar is perhaps the following: [F]or indeed t...

The other day, thanks to  +Jeremiah Burns , I read a BBC article on a 98 year old woman whose mother gave her the middle name of 'Somm...