Tolkien (and other loves of my life)
Tag: History of Middle-earth
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The Twelve Days of Sauron
The 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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Valier Evolution
One of the things I find most interesting In the development of the Legendarium: Varda and Nienna grow in importance and potency over time, and seem to pass certain aspects of Marian imagery back and forth between each other from version to version. The growth aspect is true of several of the Valier, and my…
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Whom Morgoth Made
Speculations on my favorite baddie: part 1 Some say also that Morgoth at whiles secretly as a cloud that cannot be seen or felt, and yet is, and the poison is, creeps back surmounting the Walls and visiteth the world; but others say that this is the black shadow of Thû [Sauron], whom Morgoth made,…
