Revisiting Middle Earth: “The Silmarillion”
After finishing up MultiReal (for the time being, at any rate), I felt that I needed to immerse myself in something familiar. Something classic. And so I decided to re-read J.R.R. Tolkien’s books on...
View ArticleRevisiting Middle Earth: “The Fellowship of the Ring”
Ideally one should write about the three books of The Lord of the Rings as a unit, since that’s the way J.R.R. Tolkien wrote them. It was the publisher’s decision to split the novel into three parts, a...
View ArticleRevisiting Middle Earth: “The Two Towers”
Many people who read The Lord of the Rings falter somewhere in The Two Towers, and that’s perfectly understandable. According to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Foreword to the Second Edition of LOTR, he actually...
View ArticleRevisiting Middle Earth: “The Return of the King”
The Return of the King is probably the volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy that I remembered the least. It’s also the book that differs the most from Peter Jackson’s film treatment. But Return of the...
View ArticleRevisiting Middle Earth: “The Children of Húrin”
“A darkness lies behind us, and out of it few tales have come,” says one character early in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Children of Húrin. “…It may be that we fled from the fear of the Dark, only to find it...
View ArticleRevisiting Middle Earth: “Unfinished Tales”
J.R.R. Tolkien did not write The Lord of the Rings or any of the related Middle Earth materials. Honestly. No, the good Oxford don was merely a translator and annotator of an ancient work of literature...
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