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An Interview with Tolkien Scholar Verlyn Flieger
It is my absolute honor to present to you all my interview with the one and only Verlyn Flieger! Verlyn has been a pillar of Tolkien scholarship for over 50 years and her writing on Tolkien’s works has been fundamental to my own Tolkien stu...
“A song without victory”: Beowulf & Tolkien's long defeat
Guest post by Zachary Hyde @entishtook
This past month we’ve been reading Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf (if you missed the introduction to this text you can read it in full here)! I’m honored to have this Beowulf deep dive for you all t...
An Introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien's Beowulf
We’re half way through the year and onto our third segment of A Year of Tolkien: Tolkien’s Beowulf. So far we’ve been pretty firmly in Tolkien’s early imagination, exploring his ideas of faerie, fantasy, and poetry. Now, we enter a tumultuo...
Isolation, loneliness and self-reflection in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
How solitude affects the many different characters we see in Tolkien's poetry collection
We’ve been reading Tolkien’s The Adventures of Tom Bombadil this past month for the Year of Tolkien and today we finally get to dive deep into some of...
Soundscape 8: Derry-dol, merry-dol! An Intro The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
This episode is a special free reading and soundscape of my introductory post for Tolkien’s The Adventures of Tom Bombadil which you can find in full here! In this reading, I provide an introduction to this poetry collection, the history be...
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A Year of Tolkien Book Club (2026), Tolkien academia, cozy vibes, thoughts on fantasy & medieval stories
disciple. gently defiant. middle-earth expat. probably out somewhere walking my dog.
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