I’ve been thinking a lot about narrative ‘canon’ recently. I’ve also written and rewritten this blog post a couple of times, to try and make sure I…
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I have been thinking recently on one of the more glaring textual problems in LOTR, a seeming error from the normally meticulous pen of Professor Tolkien. At…
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It is a strange and (to the best of my knowledge) unobserved tragedy that one of the greatest failures of the Lord of the Rings is on the part of Sam. Did I…
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On my current read through of The Lord of the Rings, I was greatly struck today by the similarities and distinctions that exist between Boromir and Éomer. This…
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I was chatting to a friend of mine yesterday, when she asked me a disarmingly childlike, simple question. A question that desired no philosophical or detailed…
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