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"The Return of the King" Read-through: Week 4 Recap
Welcome back, fellowship! We’re quickly approaching the end of the first half of The Return of the King. As always, late additions are more than welcome—just do some overtime work and catch up! This week’s recap is presented by . Joe is in...
Making Sense of Tom Bombadil
There comes a time when every reader of Middle-earth first stumbles upon the yellow-booted, blue-jacketed, feathered-hat clad anomaly that is Tom Bombadil. I published an original version of this article last year, but wanted to rework it g...
"The Return of the King" Read-through: Week 3 Recap
Greetings, fellowship! Another week has come and gone and we’re getting deeper and deeper into our read-through. As always, if you’re new here, you still have time to catch up! We’re barely half-way through the first half of the book. If yo...
From the Edge of the Room
Raise your hand if, in this past week, you counted it a joy for a social event to get canceled—which you may have had a hand in. Or, you never had a social plan in the first place and got…excited for a quiet night in for yourself. Raise ano...
"The Return of the King" Read-through: Week 2 Recap
Greetings, fellowship! Another week of our read-through has come and gone. If you’re arriving a bit delayed—which I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that a Substacker is never late, nor early, they arrive precisely when the...
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My true home is somewhere in Middle-earth. Thinker, reader, pastor. Tolkien scholar. Creator of Ringfolk.
I am a Roman Catholic, an aspiring writer of both fiction and nonfiction and a graduate student at Holy Apostles College & Seminary pursuing an MA in Theology. My special topics of interest are St. Thomas Aquinas and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Underwhelming them all since 1993 | MA in Theology and Letters from New Saint Andrew’s College | Writer for TGC-AU
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