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Before we get into the specifics of Peter Jackson’s 2001 The Fellowship of the Ring let’s all take a moment to appreciate how wild...
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Before we get into the specifics of Peter Jackson’s 2001 The Fellowship of the Ring let’s all take a moment to appreciate how wild...
“Corridor” and “Gateway” are all about movement: our candidates for the Offshore have to cross corridors, find their way through gateways, and end up...
The new Netflix show 3% opens with a title card: “The world is divided into two sides: one abundant, the other scarce. A selection...
Well here at last, dear friends, on the eve of a new year, comes the end of our Fellowship of the Ring re-read here...
“The Great River” is the first chapter in Book II of The Fellowship of the Ring that feels a bit redundant. In terms of...
Grief and its processing have been front and center in the last two chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo and Company stumbled...
When the Fellowship arrived in Lothlórien in the last chapter, the narrative of The Fellowship of the Ring seemed to temporarily float in place....
Lothlórien is an inverse of Moria. The latter was darkness and sharp stones, the promise of hidden threats and fire from the deep. Lórien...
I don’t know if Tolkien was a believer in the Rule of Three: the idea that jokes are funnier, instructions more memorable, or stories...
Things look dicey for Gandalf and the Fellowship after the defeat on Caradhras. They are not far from Rivendell, and the first major obstacle...
