Was JRR Tolkien, The Author Of The Lord Of The Rings, A Racist?
Was the British fantasy author JRR Tolkien a racist? That is the issue being debated in the wake of lastContinue Reading
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Was the British fantasy author JRR Tolkien a racist? That is the issue being debated in the wake of lastContinue Reading
A few weeks ago I received a rather beautiful blu-ray boxset from Japan of the 1984-94 adaptation of the SherlockContinue Reading
Here is a nice series of retrospective, if occasionally discursive, videos from the geek pop-culture commentator Lindsay Ellis examining theContinue Reading
Despite my fascination with JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth canon, or “legendarium”, I am fairly critical of the well-known “barrel scraping” whichContinue Reading
The complex, never quite complete tales of the couple, Beren and Lúthien, date to 1917 and the earliest writing ofContinue Reading
When I was fifteen or sixteen I read a relatively well-known book called In Search of the Trojan War by the British historianContinue Reading
JRR Tolkien began to write a tentative prose edition of the Medieval epic poem, Beowulf, while teaching at the University of Leeds inContinue Reading