Tag Archives: J.R.R. Tolkien

TWT: Faramir and Éowyn

As a couple, Éowyn and Faramir were banished to the background of The Return of the King. A shameful deed in my sight, since their romance is possibly the most beautiful one in fiction. Éowyn is the restless warrior princess who looks for glory in a heroic death rather than in doing her duty. Faramir isContinueContinue reading “TWT: Faramir and Éowyn”

20 things that prove you’re obsessed with LOTR

Ages ago a friend and I made a list of more than 250 things that prove you’re obsessed with The Lord of the Rings: well, here are 20 of mine. Most of them are taken from my personal experience. (Hmm, what about all of them?) Any word that looks like it’s from LOTR catches yourContinueContinue reading “20 things that prove you’re obsessed with LOTR”

Tuesdays with Tolkien: The Professor on Courage

“Courage is found in unlikely places.” Tolkien had a lot to say about courage. The very heroes of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo and Sam, are half the height of a man and have never left the very homey comforts of the Shire. Yet they are the ones who make their way deep into Sauron’sContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien: The Professor on Courage”

Tuesdays with Tolkien: Life flitters by

I had the weirdest thought the other day… I was walking down the street to give a piano lesson, and then I thought of how a week ago I was doing the exact same thing, worried about a wedding I was playing organ for the next day. I’d been practising for the wedding for what seemedContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien: Life flitters by”

Tuesdays with Tolkien: 10 favourite quotes

I did some posts in a couple G+ Lord of the Rings communities to see what fans’ favourite quotes are. This list includes quotes from all three volumes of Lord of the Rings, as well as The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion. #1: “If more of us valued food and cheer and song over hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”ContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien: 10 favourite quotes”

Tuesdays with Tolkien: The Greyscale

Tolkien is often blamed for creating black and white characters. Either they’re completely on the good side, or they’re completely on the bad side, and for this reason there are a ton of other authors who are way better at characterization that Tolkien is. When I come across assertions such as these, I find themContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien: The Greyscale”

Tuesdays with Tolkien: Put No Trust in Shifting Visions

In Middle-earth, there are various ways of seeing things far away both in distance and in time – the palantíri and Galadriel’s Mirror, to name two. But whilst all this may suggest to some that Tolkien was promoting such activity, which resembles fortunetelling and other such occult activities, in fact it is quite the opposite. J.R.R. Tolkien inContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien: Put No Trust in Shifting Visions”

Tuesdays with Tolkien

In the dictionary under ‘worrywart’… …there is totally a picture of me. I worry about absolutely everything, from next Sunday’s church outfit to what I’m going to do after college. I even worry about other people’s problems. That’s why this quote speaks to me so much. It’s a reminder not to cross bridges till IContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien”

Tuesdays with Tolkien

There are two choices. You could spend your life complaining about how short life is and about how there’s never any time to get anything done, or you could spend your life celebrating how great life is, the talents you have, and what you can do with the time you’ve got. Admission: I spend quiteContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien”