The magical system of Middle Earth is Bizarre...
One of the things I hear over and over is how Tolkien is creating a soft magic system. I think in my mind I define that just as an ambiguous magic system…one where you don’t see magic all that often a...
4 Okt 202510min
JRR Tolkien is the best perspective shift writer I've ever read.
When I was in college, I took a writing class. In that class one of the very first things that they taught was to never, ever, under any circumstances, switch the perspective of your writing. Now, the...
3 Okt 202510min
This was the moment Pippin became a man...or a hobbit
I think you can only really know the measure of a man by how they handle adversity and challenges. In this case, you can only really know the measure of a hobbit by how they handle adversity. None of ...
2 Okt 202510min
Why the world needs more men like Éomer
What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? And then both of those things meet Gimli? It’s a question that the philosophers have debated for ages, and it was a question that was ...
1 Okt 202520min
Peter Jackson left out all the tension that JRR Tolkien built...
The Riders of Rohan chapter of The Two Towers is one of the most tense chapters of literature that I have read in a long time. I’m a movie fan, so I know Merry and Pippen are alive, but if you were re...
30 Sep 202517min
This was the moment I fell in love with Aragorn
It’s time. I feel like it’s that moment in Lion King when Simba ascends Pride Rock…I am FINALLY going to talk about how in one simple chapter…one of the shortest in the whole series so far…Aragorn bec...
29 Sep 202518min
The Beginning of the Two Towers is a MASTERCLASS in how to start a story
If you’ve read The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien, you know that this book starts off guns a blazing. It is drastically different from it’s film adaptation in that Boromir dies at the beginning of this boo...
28 Sep 202514min
Why you should read the Fellowship of the Ring
Having just finished reading Lord of the Rings for the first time and publishing over 10 hours of video essays on the work, I think I am not a certified expert in this text…I am just kidding, please d...
27 Sep 202517min
