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March 2020

March 25, 2020

Prayer Wednesday: Joseph Pearce on the Annunciation and the Downfall of Barad-dur

Joseph Pearce reflects on Tolkien's destruction of the One Ring on March 25, which one...

January 2020

January 18, 2020

Interesting Interview with Tolkien

...from the mid-1960s: I sense a certain impatience with some of the interviewer's questions. But...

September 2019

September 28, 2019

Because I am re-reading The Fellowship of the Ring

and because it's Saturday and because it is practically the anniversary of the arrival of...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

Trailer for a new biopic about Tolkien

I remain... unconvinced. With the exception of childhood tragedy, World War I, and his romance...

January 2019

January 03, 2019

Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien!

I offer a rousing toast and a deeply grateful word of thanks for your evangelization...

February 2018

February 07, 2018

Korean Billy and NAS Daily

I love both of these videos, and for a similar reason. Both of them illustrate...

February 02, 2018

CPG Grey Explains the Lord of the Rings Universe…

...in four minutes:

December 2017

December 15, 2017

Very promising documentary on Lewis and Tolkien in the works!

This just came in over the transom: Dear Friend of the C.S. Lewis Foundation, We...

November 2017

November 02, 2017

Hobbit Drinking Medley

So this is pretty great:

October 2017

October 06, 2017

On this Day in History

On October 6, 3018 of the Third Age of Middle Earth this happened:

May 2017

May 03, 2017

Tolkien and Lewis and Disney

Or, more precisely, Tolkien and Lewis vs. Disney. In a 1939 letter to his friend...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

On this day in history…

January 2017

January 03, 2017

Mythopoeia

Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien! To one who said that myths were lies and therefore worthless,...

November 2016

November 09, 2016

“I am a Christian and indeed a Roman Catholic

...so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though...

September 2016

September 09, 2016

There’s a Hobbit Musical

I believe Larry D speaks for all mankind when he says, "STAHP!"

September 02, 2016

Fr. Dwight Longenecker on the Healing Sadness…

...of the Lord of the Rings. I re-read it this past summer on long walks...

August 2016

August 04, 2016

Tolkien: More Prophetic than Ever

From a letter to Amy Ronald 16 November 1969 I meant to write to let...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

BBC to Broadcast Lost Tolkien recordings

Goody!

July 28, 2016

Lewis, Tolkien, and the Found Generation

An interesting piece in Forbes on how the Inklings managed to transform the trauma they...

July 28, 2016

Snow White is a Lord of the Rings Sequel

...according to Cracked. Their ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to their newsletter.

December 2015

December 11, 2015

This is Awesome

Stephen Colbert does what he was born to do:

September 2015

September 16, 2015

The Centenary of the Silmarillion is being celebrated…

...by Brad Birzer over at The Imaginative Conservative. The Silmarillion is well worth reading. For...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Brad Birzer Reviews Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur

...and it sounds like it's worth a read.

July 2015

July 01, 2015

A good piece on the Inklings in the Chronicle of Higher Education

here. It is an interest fact that great intellectual and cultural movements often began with...

May 2015

May 02, 2015

The Beatles Wanted to Film “The Lord of the Rings” Starring Themselves

Tolkien, thanks be to God, said no. "Keep alive the memory of the age that...

April 2015

April 13, 2015

Brad Birzer on Tolkien’s Hope for the Modern World

A fine little essay over at the Imaginative Conservative.

February 2015

February 02, 2015

Joseph Pearce and Kevin O’Brien on Tolkien, Myth, and Mortality

A nifty EWTN series is now available on DVD: Also, on another note entirely, Kevin...

January 2015

January 09, 2015

Tolkien and Welsh

Interesting piece on the influence of Welsh on Elvish tongues.

December 2014

December 22, 2014

All Lord of the Rings mythology explained in 4 minutes

CPG Grey, Servant of All Mankind, does the impossible in less time than it takes...

December 13, 2014

Colbert’s Greatest Interview: Smaug

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