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Fifteen years on, it’s hard for me to convey how much the film adaptations of The Two Towers (and later, The Return of the...
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Fifteen years on, it’s hard for me to convey how much the film adaptations of The Two Towers (and later, The Return of the...
It’s a simple statement to make at this point, a cliché or an adage. Tolkien Prose is turgid. His concern for high and lofty...
So, listen. I don’t feel great about the fact that I really like Shelob and want her to live a long, happy life. I...
No better place to talk about stories than in a chapter that is so concerned with them. I’ve been looking forward to the end...
More than any other chapter so far, I went into “Journey to the Crossroads” remembering very little of what happened. After reading it, I...
“The Window on the West” was a slight deviation from for rest of Book IV of The Lord of the Rings. The view widened,...
When we began Book IV in our re-read project, I remember some discussion on its place in the series. Some people (me!) saw it...
Tolkien likes borders. I suppose you have to like them, as a fantasy author, otherwise you’d never find the patience to draw up the...
There’s a sense of motion and movement in “The Passage of the Marshes” that’s quiet, persistent, and devastating. It starts early, through one of...
As we’ve made our way further through The Lord of the Rings, I’ve become fond (too fond?) of talking about pivot points: places where...