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Leaf and Lamp with Jared C. Wellman

J.C. Wellman

Leaf 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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Tolkien napping with his son Christopher

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    I write about cultivating imagination through storytelling, shaped by Tolkien’s vision of 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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