Tolkien (and other loves of my life)
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The Twelve Days of Sauron
Read more: The Twelve Days of SauronThe Lord of Gifts sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake. The Twelve Days of Sauron. Like the Twelve Days of Christmas, but with fewer birds and more deception and torture. This is a compiled version of a series of tweets I posted in 2022 in the lead up to the premiere…
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Why Eru Didn’t Trip Gollum: Con-Creation in The Lord of the Rings
Here’s a question: in the climactic moment of The Lord of the Rings, who was responsible for the Ring’s destruction? Was it Frodo? Gollum? Maybe Sam? Alternatively, was it Eru? Is there a sense in which we could say it was Sauron, or even the Ring, itself? There’s a reading …
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They Shaped and Wrought, and Light They Caught
This blog post is an expanded version of a piece posted on Tumblr in April of 2022. Fans and scholars can always debate (and have!) in what manner or to what degree The Hobbit, in those years before The Lord of the Rings was written, really engaged with or belonged to the wider mythology of…
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Perspective and Humility Or The Overview Effect and Its Inverse
An earlier version of this essay was written and posted on Tumblr in response to Some excellent thoughts by warrioreowynofrohan. The Ainur are the only beings (that we know of) inside Eä during the Ages recorded in the Legendarium who have also seen Eä from the “outside.” From the Timeless Halls, the Ainur first experienced…
