How did Sauron give the Seven Rings to the Dwarven...
In his newest piece, TORn friend and regular Tolkien blogger Michael Martinez considers the intriguing proposition of how...
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Formerly known as "Greenbooks", the library is a place for more in-depth articles of a scholarly nature. Yeah…it's for hard-core Tolkien fans.
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Tolkien research recovers long-lost magazines of famous WWI poet Wilfred...
Tolkien scholar John Garth tells us about “an unusual but historically significant tangent” of his Tolkien research that...
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Fantasy authors, media tropes and Tolkien’s great shadow
Similarities and differences. Or as Tolkien might have put it, bones and soup. It’s the never-ending, never truly...
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Tolkien and the virtues of fairy-stories
In our latest Library piece, TORn feature writer Tedoras discusses 10 key excerpts from J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous lecture...
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The nine habits of the highly successful Nazgûl
Why do some Nazgûl thrive when commanded to hunt their master’s stolen Ring while others falter under...
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A list of the landmark novels in the history of...
What folks call dark fantasy — that niche within fantasy of bloody tales full of morally grey people,...
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