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October 2014

October 06, 2014

TolkienCatholic is On the Air!

He writes: Long time reader of your blog here. I recently launched a new site

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Gotta love that Colbert is such a Tolkien Geek

Extra points for the C.S. Lewis quote. I'm hoping Jackson will salvage the disaster of...

July 02, 2014

Extremely Cool New Tolkien Recording Found

From a dinner in the Netherlands hosted for him in March 1958. At the start...

June 2014

June 12, 2014

Lord of the Rings by George Lucas

Ouch.

April 2014

April 07, 2014

Goody! Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf…

...will be published in May. His essay "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" has been...

February 2014

February 10, 2014

Another Take Down of that Dumb Hatchet Piece on Tolkien

Fr. Angelo Mary Geiger defends Tolkien from Rorate Coeli's silly charge that he is gnostic...

February 05, 2014

Reactionary Catholics Warn of the Evils of J.R.R. Tolkien

You knew it had to happen. In the ever purging and purifying world of uber-super-pure...

December 2013

December 17, 2013

There is a Lord of the Rings Broadway Musical

For the sake of the cast and crew, who undoubtedly poured heart and soul into...

December 09, 2013

The Fellowship of the Fisherman’s Ring

Fr. Dwight has fun with some extreme inside baseball stuff for people who know and...

October 2013

October 24, 2013

Tolkienian Astrophysics

How cool is that?

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Insane Ideology vs. Tolkien

Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky try to grasp The Lord of the Rings. Train wreck...

July 2013

July 02, 2013

Beautiful Minds…

is a fun radio show. I recorded something with them a couple of weeks back...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Tolkien vs. Lewis on Marriage

This piece is fascinating for a couple of reasons. First, it shows Tolkien in fine...

June 25, 2013

You Can Never Have Enough…

blogs devoted to Middle Earth.

June 11, 2013

Aww yeah! The trailer for the next Hobbit film is out!

March 2013

March 25, 2013

Today is the Feast of the Annunciation and of the Downfall of Barad-dur

If you think that a mere coincidence, you don't understand Tolkien. Paul Catalanotto offers a...

March 04, 2013

The Internet!

Where some guy can sing "I Dreamed a Dream" in the voice of Gollum and...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

Lord of the Ringos

First Things has a piece on the anonymous garage band that may have helped inspire...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

Because you can never have too much Tolkien

Drew Bowling writes not one, but two essays on Tolkien. Part I: Part II:

January 19, 2013

And while we’re talkin’ Tolkien…

here's Tolkien (Christopher) on Tolkien (Dad). Or more precisely, on what pop culture (including Peter...

January 19, 2013

The Irrepressible Brandon Vogt…

recently posted a couple items youse guys might be interested in: (Video) Interview with ...

January 03, 2013

Preciousssssss!

It'sssss our Birthday! As we all celebrate the great gift of this wonderful writer, let...

January 03, 2013

Since there was a discussion about myth yesterday

...and at least some of my readers are under the impression that "myth" means fiction,...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Fun!

So yesterday John Farrell and I did a Skype chat on "The Hobbit" which you...

December 14, 2012

As I feared…

...the bawling sound of a cash cow being bled to death that rippled out of...

December 01, 2012

Getting Benedict Wrong

Mark Brumley looks at a couple of the illiterate ways in which the press completely...

November 2012

November 05, 2012

Fun!

October 2012

October 22, 2012

Nifty looking new book

on Tolkien's Hobbit.

September 2012

September 20, 2012

The New Hobbit Trailer!

Goody, as they say, gumdrops!

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