Personal Canon Formation
John HalbrooksA newsletter about how we read and listen to enrich our lives
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The Mona Lisa's Sister Doesn't Smile
The Mona Lisa’s sister doesn’t smile,
She tried to pose but only for a while.
Leonardo sent her home,
Since then she has lived alone,
With her few belongings and a copy
Of a painting of herself unhappy,
She is goin...
Tolkien's Homosocial Fellowship
Éowyn finds herself in “the friend zone” with Aragorn. Picture by Alan Lee from the Centenary Edition.
In March of 1941, Tolkien wrote a long letter to his son Michael, who was apparently attached to a young woman and contemplating marriag...
Orc-Talk: Tolkien and Ordinary Evil
Towards the end of The Two Towers, the reader may be surprised to find a strange and funny conversation between two orcs, Gorbag and Shagrat—surprised because it breaks into this devastating moment in the narrative: Sam believes Frodo to be...
Confessions
Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash
Imposter syndrome is ubiquitous in my line of work, and this is especially true for medievalists. We look upon our bookshelves and ponder the apparently superhuman accomplishments of the scholars of yore...
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...
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