2021-09-25 09:52
For those who might come across the Reading Tolkien podcast here, I’ve just put up a Facebook group, which will hopefully become a place of discussion:
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2021-09-05 04:31
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2021-08-04 11:18
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2021-06-18 02:25
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2021-06-02 11:22
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2021-05-01 02:27
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2021-04-20 11:29
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2021-04-17 07:21
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2021-04-03 04:57
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2021-03-23 00:03
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2021-03-22 23:10
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2021-03-14 08:50
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2021-02-16 06:06
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2021-01-18 03:27
In this episode, I offer brief thoughts with regard to the recently released synopsis for the Lord of the Rings on Prime show. I also update listeners on a few matters. During my remarks, I… Read More
2020-12-20 08:43
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2020-12-06 08:48
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2020-11-05 06:59
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2020-07-02 02:40
Here are some links to Medium pieces I’ve recently put up. I think I’d like to come back to this blog for the most part, although I think it would be worthwhile to use both a… Read More
2018-08-26 06:58
In response to my article, “Progress and Polytheism: Could an ethical west exist without Christianity?” several commenters have raised a series of objections, some of which are v… Read More
2017-04-18 06:47
In the previous post, I listed three reasons various commentators have given in order to absolve God/the Valar of responsibility for the suffering endured by the characters in The Children o… Read More
2017-04-10 10:24
Well, it’s been over a year since I last wrote here, probably a rather bad idea if I want to develop a readership. But alas, I am now in a PhD program, and yet paradoxically I will pro… Read More
2016-02-03 23:42
In a quote directed toward the work of Tolkien George R.R. Martin, author of the Song of Ice and Fire series, has this to say:
There is always this presumption that if you are a good man, yo… Read More
2016-01-10 23:24
Well, having completed my Honours project in 2015, and having taken some much needed time off, I feel like I can finally start writing here again.
I’ve been thinking about the subject… Read More
2015-05-25 00:06
I think when many people ask why there is ‘no religion’ in The Lord of the Rings, they are really asking about monotheism. Why aren’t they characters monotheistic?
The prob… Read More
2015-04-23 02:44
I promise, this blog is not devoted to bashing Corey Olsen and his band of fanboys and fangirls. Nevertheless I feel that he deserves a great deal of criticism so if he occasionally appears… Read More
2015-04-09 07:35
It is lovely to see that my blog posts about Corey Olsen’s ideas have been picked up on Troels Forchhammer’s blog, Parmar-kenta. I regularly peruse the wonderful Tolkien Transact… Read More
2015-04-04 01:48
For some time now, a literature professor called Corey Olsen, who styles himself the “Tolkien Professor” (as though he were the only one deserving of the appellation) has been re… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
At some stage in the next few months I intend on revambing and revitalising this blog. Obviously there hasn’t been all that much content of late, but for now I’d like to list som… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Published for the first time in 1937, JRR Tolkien’s fantasy classic, The Hobbit, has sold millions of copies and continues to be popular to this day. Until now, however, it has no… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Moral Landscape Sam Harris, Free Press 2010 Sam Harris is best known as a ‘radical’ atheist-polemicist, a virulent campaigner for a civilisation who places heavy emphasis on… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Being exam time, I don’t have much space to write extended blog posts at the moment but when I have more time over the summer I intend to write responses on Sam Harris’s new book… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In his article, ‘God’s Tapestry and the Future of Foresight’, Jamie at Futile Democracy writes that: …we’re left with three possibilities; 1) God knew ex… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It is not often that I can describe the content and argument of a literary essay published on a ‘high culture’ website like AEON as both ‘bizarre’ and ‘occasion… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In his often moving essay ‘The tower and the ruin: the past in J.R.R. Tolkien’s works’ scholar Michael Drout (185) writes that ‘”Sadness that is yet blessed and… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Over at Parmar-kenta, Troels writes in his precis of my post about Corey Olsen that scholars of Tolkien should maintain fellowship. Troels seems to ask how it might be best to use criticism… Read More
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