Personal Canon Formation
John Halbrooks, Matthew LongA newsletter about how we read and listen to enrich our lives
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Gollum and the Fragmented Self
The Taming of Sméagol, as rendered by Alan Lee in the Centenary Edition.
A “Bundle of Perceptions”
Late in The Two Towers, as Frodo and Sam are on their way to their fateful encounter with Shelob, they take a rest, exhausted by their...
Tolkien and the Myth of Decline
Isengard after the ents have unleashed the flood, as pictured by Alan Lee in the Centenary Edition.
In 2004, historian George Bernstein, an older colleague from whom I learned a great deal, published a book called The Myth of Decline: The...
The Palantír and the Panopticon
Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon as illustrated by Willey Reveley in 1791.
Foucault and the Panopticon
In 1975, two years after Tolkien's death, Michel Foucault published a book that would change the ways in which we all think about surv...
Tolkien and Race
In Junot Díaz's brilliant novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the title character is a precocious and unpopular boy growing up in New Jersey, who wants to be the "Dominican Tolkien." Those of us of who were introverted and bookish...
Tolkien's Ents: Ecology Meets Philology
An aerial view of the White Horse of Uffington, Oxfordshire, UK
Today, we’re going to talk about everybody’s favorite deciduous character: Treebeard. I think that he is a central figure in LOTR and that he creates the connections that tie...
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