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The Lay of the Children of Húrin  exists in two versions, neither of which tells the whole story its title promises. The second version is m...

A question posted online in a private group set me thinking about which hand Frodo wears the One Ring on. During The Lord of the Rings  Frod...

  Some months back John Garth and I were discussing the phrase "Mani Aroman," which is found in The Return of the Shadow as a pos...

Recently I saw someone somewhere inline asking about Gandalf's characterization of Gollum in The Shadow of the Past .   The most inquisi...

In his new book The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien , Nick Birns has written a very interesting chapter called ...