This is a chronological list of all posts published on the blog since its inception in 2020. If you’d rather browse posts according to their theme or subject matter, consider checking out the Index instead.
~~2024~~
“…World-dominion by creative act” – On ‘On Fairy Stories’ and role-playing games
Prehistoric Theology: On the Faerie of Dinosaurs and Dragons
The Coming of Bilbo to Rivendell
Notes on ‘The Coming of Bilbo to Rivendell’
Escape to Faerie-land: Tolkien’s Hobbits and Wootton Major
Hobbits, Riders and Ents: Considering Faerie Delight as a Mutual Enrichment
And That Means Comfort – On the Shire as anti-Faerie
Hobbits in the Land of Faerie – The 2024 September Series
Recording The Lord of the Rings – A Private Project
Aragorn, Frodo, and the Breaking of the Fellowship
The Last Dragon – A Short Story
‘Strider shall be your guide’: On Aragorn and Illeism
Falling out of love with fandom: On modern media culture
Impotence, Inauthenticity, and Identity in ‘Hail, Caesar!’
‘The knife the least’ : Túrin’s gift and Morgoth’s curse
Announcing The Daily Word of the Rings – A Tolkien Project
‘The mighty from their thrones’ – Aragorn before Meduseld
~~2023~~
Merry Fellows – on Tom Bombadil and Father Christmas
Sisyphus’ Boulder – On the Faery Irreality of Taskmaster
Pity and the Ring: On Sam and Gandalf’s temptations
An Unexpected Blog of Mazarbul Golden Jubilee Post!
Why The Man with the Golden Gun is the perfect Bond reboot
‘Goblin Feet’ – Sorrow and Loss in Tolkien’s Least Tale
Smith of Wootton Major: An ode to the wonder of wandering
Farmer Giles: Impostor Syndrome in the Little Kingdom
Niggle’s Glimpse: In praise of a silly little artist
Announcing the September Series: Tolkien’s Lesser Tales
Wait what…was Reva’s plan in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’?
Durin VII, Reincarnation, and the Beautiful Dwarvish Long Defeat
Gwen Stacy & the Hero’s Journey in Across the Spider-Verse
“I (don’t) see you” – Why couldn’t Sauron find the Ring?
Wait what…was Grindelwald doing in the American Ministry for Magic?
Wait what?…is this new blog post series?
Generous deed and cold counsel: Gandalf’s humility in Gondor
Miguel’s family and Earth-67 in Across the Spider-Verse
Blank Pages, Golden Sceptres – Presumption and Power in Art
The Price of Pride and Prejudice in ‘Across the Spider-Verse’
Wait…how exactly does the One Ring make you evil?
‘The work of the hands which thou hast made’ – Of Aulë and Yavanna: Tolkien’s Odd Couple
A Little More is Never Enough – The Joys of Sobriety
Triskaidekaphobia and fortune in ‘The Hobbit’
~~2022~~
Faery Joy and Thomistic Elves in ‘Smith of Wootton Major’
A Nice Eucatastrophe: An analysis of ‘The Nice Guys’
The Blog of Mazarbul has moved! (Don’t Panic)
“Pretty fair nonsense” – On Elvish frivolity in ‘The Hobbit’
More things in Heaven and Earth: On Faerie, the Unexplained, and the Unexplored of ‘The Hobbit’
Back Again: Reflecting on Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’
The Blog of Mazarbul’s Obligatory Rings of Power Hot Take (That is Probably Wrong)
Naught but wood: A subtextual analysis of the hidden story of Gimli the Dwarf
A diversionary solution: Revisiting and analysing my puzzle
~~2021~~
Captains of the West: Some thoughts on Boromir and Éomer
A flawed masterpiece: Why Return of the Jedi is my favourite Star Wars film
“Don’t you wish it could all be real” – Tolkien and subcreation; theology and fiction
Ron Weasley and the Slytherin in the Closet (2/2)
Ron Weasley and the Reworked Characterisation (1/2)
Distinction without Difference: A Theory on the Secret Fire and the Flame Imperishable
~~2020~~
“The time of my thought is my own to spend” – a tribute to Dáin Ironfoot
Outwit: Outplay: Outlast – Politics in the age of Reality TV