Personal Canon Formation
John Halbrooks, Matthew LongA newsletter about how we read and listen to enrich our lives
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Tolkienian Ecology as Living Text
Let’s meditate over some ruins.
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The Ruin
In the late stages of Book One of The Lord of the Rings, Strider the ranger is guiding the hobbits through an unfamiliar landscape, making for a hill called W...
Who the Hell Is Tom Bombadil?
My old paperback of The Tolkien Reader, which features Tom Bombadil on the cover, as imagined by Pauline Baynes.
The Foreword to the Second Edition includes Tolkien’s famous (or infamous?) remarks on allegory:
But I cordially dislike al...
Tolkienian Style
The cover of the first American Edition
In the third chapter of Book One of The Fellowship of the Ring, “Three Is Company,” there is a narrative moment that would not have been out of place in The Hobbit, or even in C. S. Lewis’s Narnia bo...
The Dragon, the Treasure, and Radical Empathy
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The Dragon and the treasure
In 1936, J.R.R. Tolkien, then a young Oxford philologist rather than a household name, published a lecture that he had delivered to the British Academy entitled “...
Revenant Resoluteness
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“A revenant quality to his resoluteness”
Last week, we ended with four translations of the passage that describes Beowulf’s state of mind as ponders the dragon hoard, immediately before the speech that r...
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