I prefer Lewis to Tolkien as a fiction writer, but this is insightful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfktLVP4Qr0&list=PLKjwFyELc2Snq...

https://michaelnazirali.com/articles/app/archive/10-2019/title/philip-pullman-siding-with-satan

Here's an excerpt from chapter 4 of Tom Shippey's J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century .

I'm not a Tolkien scholar, so this post will reflect my limitations in that regard. I read LOTR once, as a teenager, to find out what a...

Recently I was watching a roundtable discussion in which one of the participants tried to explain why he preferred the LOTR movies to the N...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is most often described with a single word: epic.   And it truly is a sweeping story, full of ma...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-VrCTpwXAc 1. This is Bishop Barron doing what he does best. He presents a very winsome version of Cat...

I've been watching trailers and reading reviews of the new Tolkien biopic. I don't plan to see the movie. So my observations are se...

In our oversexed, X-rated age, this scene illustrates the sensual power of touch: A G-rated gesture. Yet it carries such a charge. Touc...

The two source hypothesis goes basically like this: Matthew and Luke made use of Mark, which they supplemented with additional sources.  ...

As I was rummaging through the unpublished papers of Bilbo Baggins, I ran across his "Religious Demography of Middle-earth," in ...

Many Christians love Tolkien's fiction. Some love the books. Some love the movies. Some love both. However, for some, this is a gu...