On the third day of January, in the year 1892, in the city of Bloemfontein in what is now South Africa, a child was born. A child who would grow to become this man. It is really impossible to quantify how much, how profoundly, one man and his creative work could shape my life; I am sure …
Category Archives: Tolkien
Unfinished tales
A new volume has been added to my Tolkien collection of roughly 200 volumes. The fact that I do not know precisely how many is perhaps more indicative than anything else how disconnected I have been from this deepest of my literary passions for the past few years. Despite my optimistic expectations to the contrary …
Living for the hobbits
The other day a friend emailed me. He had read a brief article about the new musical adaptation of The Lord of Rings currently being staged (I believe) in Toronto. Not surprisingly, he immediately wanted to know what my thoughts were. Readers of this blog may not be aware that I a fan of LotR …
Birthday of the Master
We take a moment at the beginning of the new year to mark the arrival of the most imaginative author of the Twentieth Century. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this date in 1897 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. It is without hyperbole that I may say that his work has had a unfathomable effect …
