I'm curious... has anyone been following news of Amazon's "Rings of Power" series? Vanity Fair has an article out about it with enough spoilers to give any hard-core Tolkien fan a bad case of the heebie-jeebies, I think, but also a frisson of excitement that this could be very cool. Or at least very big.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/ ( Read more... )

It's been just over a decade since I wrote my "Eating Stones" series ( Read more... )

Christopher Tolkien, son of JRR Tolkien, is dead. Wes thu hal, sir, and Good Journey.

It feels a bit odd, almost sacrilegious, to follow that sentence with these next ones. A lot of fandoms divide over ships or adaptation-versus-original issues. Tolkien fandom, at a deep level, seems to draw the line over purity: how important it is to stay true ( Read more... )

I'm listening to the Lord of the Rings BBC radio dramatization, which is lovely, much more a love-letter to the book than the Jackson films (which I also love but for very different reasons). But they still entirely skip over skip over the whole sequence between leaving in Crickhollow and arriving in Bree, and those chapters matter to me. Granted, ( Read more... )

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I was looking for Moonwulf/Michael Longcor songs on YouTube (as one does) and came across "The Swordsman's Dance of Death." This was the one Gwynnyd used to introduce me to his music, and it's almost never available online, so I'm going to jump on the chance.

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Inquiring minds and all that ( Read more... )

This Tumblr post has me smiling. Basically it's about all the silly linguist-humor-but-making-us-mere-mortals-reach-for-our-notecards things Tolkien does. A sample:

2. Characters who Have Way Too Many Names ( Read more... )

So, Sherlock ( Read more... )

I'm thinking a bit about a link I saw passed around in some Facebook posts today: Eighty-five Years Ago Today, J.R.R. Tolkien Convinces C.S. Lewis that Christ is the True Myth. To be honest, I've not gotten past the title. The site is a standard of evangelical culture-blogging (including culture war-blogging), and I'm not sure I want to invest my ( Read more... )