Tolkien’s riddles
The Riddles of the Hobbit is a riddling book about a riddling writer, a philological exercise concerning the works of a...
Tag: J R R Tolkien
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accommodation and perversion
I wrote recently that I see world-building in SF and fantasy as coming in two chief varieties, the speculative and the...
insders and outsiders
One of the stories often told by fans of the Inklings — C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and their friends — is...
the desolation of Peter Jackson
My son and I went to see The Dissolution of Smog The Desecration of Snog The Desolation of Smaug today. I am...
Joyce, Tolkien, and copyright
James Joyce’s Ulysses is fascinating in many ways, not least because it has proven such a magnet for controversy of...
blogging re-reading
I’ve just discovered a cool thing at Tor.com, the website of the SF/fantasy publisher: blogs devoted to...
the desire of the Sybil
It’s generally understood that books are read differently in different generations: cultural changes bring themes and...
Mr. Bowman and the fantasists
In a forthcoming issue of The New Atlantis, James Bowman writes: Tolkien and the other old-time fantasists may have...