“Many Partings” is a nice chapter, if not a necessary one. It’s a chapter-long farewell between our characters (and their world) and puts a continued emphasis...
About three years and 1,123 pages later (oh my god), we’ve finally made our way through the traditional climax of The Lord of the Rings. The...
So. My guys. Ghân-buri-Ghân. I have been low-key dreading this chapter since the start of our re-read, wondering what useful things I could possibly say about...
J.R.R. Tolkien, as he would like you to keep in mind, was not a fan of allegory. He states in his letters, on twelve or thirteen...
It’s been too long! Finally, after a few chapters of non-stop action (you know, in relative terms) “The Muster of Rohan” brings us back to the...
“The Passing of the Grey Company,” for better or worse, is a bit of a grab-bag of a chapter. It jumps between three different viewpoints, lays...
Welcome back, everyone, as we dive into our last (!) book of The Lord of the Rings. It was always my favorite when I was little—whether...
Fifteen years on, it’s hard for me to convey how much the film adaptations of The Two Towers (and later, The Return of the King) meant...
It’s a simple statement to make at this point, a cliché or an adage. Tolkien Prose is turgid. His concern for high and lofty things, for...
So, listen. I don’t feel great about the fact that I really like Shelob and want her to live a long, happy life. I mean, yes....
