Tolkien (and other loves of my life)
Tag: The One Ring
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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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Tolkien the Horror Writer
Earlier this year, as I was trolling The Lord of the Rings for a paper I was writing, I came across this moment in “The Taming of Smeagol.” It reminded me of how deeply frightening I found the novel, and what a capable horror writer Tolkien would have made. It’s a subtle type of horror,…
