Leaf and Lamp with Jared C. Wellman
Jared C WellmanLeaf and Lamp explores Tolkien, storytelling, and Christian imagination through essays on sub-creation and original works of poetry, fiction, and art.
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A Poem Lost Its Perch
The Forest of Lothlorien in Spring by Tolkien
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Behind our house, the field began to cry.
I heard the saws go working through the trees.
Their tru...
Why Did Tolkien Think Fantasy Was a Way Back to Reality?
Tolkien’s “The Tree of Amalion.” Tolkien scholars Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull suggest that Amalion is related to the “Tree of Tales” in On Fairy-Stories and Niggle’s Tree in Leaf by Niggle.
I started this Substack in the fall of 2025...
How Do You Illustrate a Dog Who’s Been to the Moon and Back? Discover Tolkien’s Roverandom Through Fresh Illustrations
Lunar Landscape, by Tolkien (for Roverandom)
J. R. R. Tolkien was an illustrious illustrator, and I use that wording with some intentionality.
The English word illustration comes through Old French from the Latin illustratio, rooted in il...
Elijah's Table, a poem for widows and the fatherless
Elijah Receiving Bread from the Widow of Zarephath (ca. 1621-1624), by Giovanni Lanfranco
Recently, our church held a widows’ banquet, where our deacons hosted and served the widows a fine dinner and encouraged them with hospitality. We’ve...
Why it Takes Courage to Imagine: An Encouraging Word for Writers and Painters and Artists of All Kinds
Enter Imagination, by yours truly
There are moments when you begin to suspect that you may be the wrong sort of person for the age you live in.
For some of us, these moments arrive while answering our seventeenth email of the day, or whil...
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I write about cultivating imagination through storytelling, shaped by Tolkien’s vision of myth and sub-creation (PhD ’24). Subscribe for reflections on the wonder beneath great stories, with the occasional poem or drawing when I’m feeling Tookish.
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