Tagged: tolkien
Would J.R.R. Tolkien Have Occupied Wall Street?
I’m not sure where this came from originally (I found it on Facebook) but it’s pretty hilarious. Of course, it’s hard to say what Tolkien would have thought of these particular protests. He was...
Tits! Swords! Edginess!
(Editor’s note: Erik’s praise for “Game of Thrones” drew me out of semi-retirement. Bear with me) One of the problems with easing constraints on a creative medium is that creators are inevitably tempted to...
Happy Eleventy-First, and Many More
Amy Sturgis reminds us that today is the birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, and she gives us this delightful passage about Frodo’s friend Sam Gamgee, who departed the Shire today: Wild fantasies arose...
Christine O’Donnell on “The Women of Middle Earth”
Via Politico, here’s O’Donnell’s old Catholic Exchange article on Tolkien and gender.
Real Fantasy
I stumbled across this short essay from February by Richard Morgan whose book, The Steel Remains, I am currently reading. (And it’s good so far, and very dark, and very adult.) Anyways, Morgan takes...
