Once, there was a terrible and wicked monster, who destroyed a great and peaceful kingdom, killing many and driving the survivors into a long and bitter exile…
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As feats of worldbuilding go, it is hard to go past Tolkien’s Legendarium as the chief and foremost example of the craft. Even those who have a passing…
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I’ll never forget the first time I saw a dragon. I was six years old, a precocious and likely slightly annoying reader, with an overactive imaginat…
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What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?There’s a lot of nervous Tolkien fans out there this…
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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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