The Recovering Hopper

  S aturday afternoon, out of the blue, my two little ones (now aged 19 and 15, but soon to be 20 and 16 next month) gifted me with two “new...

    L ast night Professor Tolkien, Oxford philologist and epic literary genre creator, appeared to me in a dream. “Hopper,” he addressed me ...

  W ell, I’m starting to feel that itch again. Periodically, every couple of years or a decade or two, I run out of things of interest to re...

  Despite my heartiest efforts, my children are not Tolkien fans. Perhaps it’s the coarsening of our culture and the desensitization that en...

  Last week I finished my fifth cycle through Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings . What struck me most was the fact that each time I read the 1...

  “The Men of N ú menor were settled far and wide on the shores and seaward regions of the Great Lands, but for the most part they fell into...

  I’m not a big Facebook guy. Maybe log in a few times a week, mainly to see what’s up among my childhood friends and extended family scatte...

  One of the more pleasant surprises I love receiving is the shock of synchronicity. I’ll see something in one area I’m interested in that w...

  Well, out of the blue yesterday a strong urge to re-read Tolkien swept over me. I kinda know that this will happen when I find myself diss...

A ll that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not r...

That’s the number of languages J.R.R. Tolkien understood: Ancient Greek, Latin, Gothic, Old Norse/Old Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Dani...

So, adult me discovered about fifteen years ago that I really enjoy reading Charles Dickens. A thousand years ago, back in high school, my...

Over the past decade I’ve read through one of Tolkien’s works every year, year-and-a-half. It’s a nice, grounding, satisfying ritual. I en...

Life is good! I’ve been re-reading The Lord of the Rings since for the past three weeks, and whether its in the early light of the morning,...

Átaremma i ëa han ëa, na airë esselya, aranielya na tuluva, na carë indómelya cemendë tambë Erumandë. Ámen anta síra ilaurëa massamma,...

Little One needs to start reading The Hobbit , like, now!

A few years back when I was re-reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time, I studied a book which pointed out the numerous examples...

So the Tolkien bug bit me (again) last week, and now I’m halfway through listening to the audio book of The Silmarillion as I read along ...