With apologies to J. R. R. Tolkien . Out with the schola and toss out the chant!      Graduals down and hymnals up! There's no trad...

John Howe is today most famous for his collaboration with fellow illustrator Alan Lee on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit ...

Gil-galad was an Elven-king Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea Hi...

There's a charming scene in J. R. R Tolkien's  The Two Towers  where hobbits Merry and Pippin encounter the ancient shepherd Treebe...

Sooner or later every beloved literary character falls victim to some ideologue who tries to shoehorn him into a pet philosophy. My goal he...

If the success of a romance like The Lord of the Rings  in the postmodern 20th century is not surprising enough, consider the love of Tolki...

Few modern books, if any, have inspired as much artwork as those of J. R. R. Tolkien. The obvious but incomplete reason is that Tolkien wro...

"The modern world meant for [Tolkien] essentially the machine. . . He used ["machine"] very compendiously to mean. . . almo...

Your esteemed blogger Mr. Northcutt recently composed a short list which only someone with his erudite catholicity could have assembled. It...

More fun! Again, I think I made it moderately difficult. All answers are last names.  Click to enlarge. It's an 8.5x11 image if you wan...

Medievalist and scholar of modern fantasy and science fiction Tom Shippey on J. R. R. Tolkien and "filling the gaps" of medieval ...

" I coined the word 'eucatastrophe': the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears (which I ...

The music of Richard Wagner and the writing of J. R. R. Tolkien are both considerable interests of mine so you can expect substantial writin...