Boxing Day was decidedly a stay-in-bed-all-day kind of day for me this year. I’d picked up Come Back to Me by Jody Hedlund for a reread a couple days previously, so I finished that and then decided to borrow the sequel, Never Leave Me, from the library and sped through that whole thing in theContinueContinue reading “My Monster Rant about Christian Fiction, Part 1 (Research)”
Category Archives: Tuesdays with Tolkien
My review of Moments of Grace and Spiritual Warfare in The Lord of the Rings
In the latest issue of The Ivy Bush, my review of Anne Marie Gazzolo’s Moments of Grace and Spiritual Warfare in The Lord of the Rings was published. Check it out at the link below – there’s also a bonus interview with the author – and don’t forget to subscribe to the magazine if you aren’t already!ContinueContinue reading “My review of Moments of Grace and Spiritual Warfare in The Lord of the Rings”
TWT: Faramir, Boromir, and the Fellowship of the Ring
In an analysis of the Fellowship of the Ring, one member is glaringly distinct from the others. Most of the Company is there out of concern for the common good, or for love of a friend. One, however, is there, at the least, simply to get home, or at the best, for the furtherance ofContinueContinue reading “TWT: Faramir, Boromir, and the Fellowship of the Ring”
TWT: Arwen’s Song
This is possibly the best poem I’ve ever written. Arwen’s Song We met at dusk in Imladris wood; He called, “Tinúviel!” As Beren called in years long past, Far west of Rivendell. In Lórien of singing gold We met at length once more; I plighted troth to Arathorn’s son On Amroth’s hill of lore. IContinueContinue reading “TWT: Arwen’s Song”
TWT: Elf Poems
I don’t write much fanfiction, but when I do, it usually doesn’t make sense. Elf Poems I, Gimli son of Glóin, the Elf being asleep in the canoe, have gone through his pack and found… shampoo bottles? Ah yes, but not filled with shampoo! They are filled with scrolls covered in his squigglyContinueContinue reading “TWT: Elf Poems”
(TWT) A Shadow Indeed: an (old) review of “Shadow of Mordor”
I wrote this in April 2015 when the game Shadow of Mordor was coming out. If you want to make an enemy of me, imitate pop culture’s twisting of Tolkien for their own ends. The theme of The Lord of the Rings, as seen by Tolkien, is that of immortality and its opposite. But thereContinueContinue reading “(TWT) A Shadow Indeed: an (old) review of “Shadow of Mordor””
TWT: a snowman’s demise
Yesterday [the North Polar Bear] was snowballing the Snow-man in the garden and pushed him over the edge of the cliff so that he fell into my sleigh at the bottom and broke lots of things – one of them was himself. I used some of what was left of him to paint my whiteContinueContinue reading “TWT: a snowman’s demise”
TWT: Original or Stereotyped?
Whilst Tolkien can be cleared of the charge of inventing stereotypical female characters, I’m not so sure about Peter Jackson. His Arwen is undeniably far different from Tolkien’s original character, and considering the Arwen of the book and of the movies, I would like to decide which character is more cliché. In the book, we see veryContinueContinue reading “TWT: Original or Stereotyped?”
TWT: Ioreth
Ioreth is perhaps the most interesting supporting character of The Lord of the Rings. She appears an odd number of times during the events in Minas Tirith. At first she gives the impression of being an irritating old crone with a hearty devotion to old wives’ tales. “The hands of a king are the handsContinueContinue reading “TWT: Ioreth”
TWT: On Éowyn and accusations of sexism
I’ve been a member of TheOneRing.net’s forums for several years. We’ve had a lot of good discussions on anything from distaste for the Hobbit films to a chapter-by-chapter readthrough of The Lord of the Rings. In one of the recent threads on that topic – the one on “The Steward and the King”, to be exact -ContinueContinue reading “TWT: On Éowyn and accusations of sexism”
Benita J. Thompson 