Alas, not me

Two sections at the end of the 1937 "Quenta Silmarillion" record a prophecy which is familiar to many as The Second Prophecy of Ma...

I just noticed this a little while ago. I was reading Faramir’s declaration of love to Éowyn in “The Steward and the King.” One word jumped...

The difficulty many of us face in understanding Tom Bombadil arises from the fact that he is part of nature and we all too often think of o...

As was widely noted back in May of this year Pope Leo XIV quoted Tolkien in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas , specifically Gandalf's ...

The phrase "it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks" has for centuries years been a common English translation of the phras...