When and how did the Second Age of Middle-earth begin? What's a Morgoth? And what does Randy have to do with anything?
The Start of the Second Age
Second Age Exploratory Series: Intro
A series exploring the events and known information concerning the Second Age of Tolkien's Middle-earth prior to the release of Amazon's TV series.
Tolkien Recommended Reading
A listing of Tolkien's works and where they all fit together, with some guidance on reading-order.
On Food and Cheer and Song
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." So too if script-writers would not change perfectly-written lines of dialogue for no good reason at all!
Varda: Fanlókë
Or how to name your dragon.
Behold the Dragon of Enormous Girth, Who Smashed Up Some Towers on Middle-earth
How big was Ancalagon the Black?
Here at the end of all things…
The One Ring has been destroyed. And 10 year-old Lucy has a few thoughts.
Sam, Frodo, & Lúthien
What does Lúthien have in common with a couple of hobbits?
Long Lost Shire Poetry
An excerpt from the Blue Book of Frogmorton (not nearly so well-known as its red cousin in Westmarch): There once was a hobbit named Baggins Who'd gone off to steal jools from a dragon Folk thought he was dead but he came back instead And his treasure set tongues all a-waggin'. As with most entries... Continue Reading →
Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion!
10-year-old girl discovers why Éowyn is one of the most badass characters in The Lord of the Rings.
