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Tolkien and the Old Wives

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Published: May 22, 2026 22:08

Here's to the old wives. They could keep a hospitable house, dispense herb-lore, and tell tales only a fool would disregard. They had a rapt audience in the Brothers Grimm, who recorded their knowledge of customs and of cautions, of Faërian folk and of…

Glorfindel upon the other side: one of Tolkien's most glorious glimpses in The Lord of the Rings

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Published: May 12, 2026 06:15

It is said that Galadriel is the most powerful elf left in Middle-earth in the late Third Age, but I would suggest that Glorfindel is the bearer of the most sub-created holiness. He is the one whom J.R.R. Tolkien called "almost angelic"; a being so…

Review: Galahad and the Grail by Malcolm Guite

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Published: May 2, 2026 19:50

Here and there, someone communicates something that makes you actually clap your hands and raise your voice in a cheer. You cannot help yourself! It happens to me when Théoden King musters the Rohirrim, when a brother of the Oxford Oratory at J.R.R.…

Honored by Tolkien Society Award for Best Artwork!

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Published: April 26, 2026 17:40

I am incredibly grateful to The Tolkien Society and all of its voting members for the outstanding honor of this award for Best Artwork in 2026 for my painting of "The Long Winter, 1158: Gandalf Helps the Hobbits." There are so many gifted Tolkien-inspired…

The Best Protection Against the Ring: A Small Garden

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Published: March 24, 2026 04:04

“The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.” - The Return of the King, Book 6, Chapter 1: The Tower of Cirith Ungol The sense of guarding is…

When Folk Little and Big Lived Together at Bree

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Published: March 19, 2026 07:32

The wistful part of my heart is always hoping to see a new Bree arise in our present Age and to go live there, where the Little Folk and Big Folk are good neighbors once more. There would be Men close enough to nature that they take their surnames from it,…

Yavanna and the Hobbits

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Published: March 6, 2026 21:07

What would late Third-Age hobbits have thought of Yavanna Kementári, and what would she have thought of them? It's harvest time in the Green Hill Country, and you're seeing my thought of how the Little Folk might have imagined this august servant of the…