Personal Canon Formation
John Halbrooks, Matthew LongA newsletter about how we read and listen to enrich our lives
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Tolkienian Deep Time: Elves and Lothlórien
The heart of Lothlórien, as pictured by Alan Lee in the centenary edition.
In Book Two of The Fellowship of the Ring, the company leaves Galadriel and Lothlórien by boat. She gives the company their precious gifts, including Frodo's phial,...
Could "The Council of Elrond" Have Been an Email?
Rivendell, as imagined by Alan Lee, from the Tolkien Century Edition, 1992.
I have sat through so many committee meetings, a few that were productive, some that were necessary, and many more that could have been an email—so many hours of m...
Tolkienian Ecology as Living Text
Let’s meditate over some ruins.
Photo by Chris Curry on Unsplash
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...
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