Sunday, March 30, 2025

Humphrey Carpenter was a professional jazz musician

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Humphrey Carpenter, best known to readers of this blog as Tolkien’s authorized biographer, was also a professional jazz musician. This has b...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Hallucinations

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Last fall, I wrote about whether/to what degree generative AI could help us analyze The Lord of the Rings (spoiler: probably not, or not mu...
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Friday, January 31, 2025

C.S. Lewis by Joel Heck

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Today I want to bookmark for myself and share with all of you an incredible set of resources on C.S. Lewis put together by Joel Heck, a Lewi...
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Monday, January 20, 2025

J.A.W. Bennett on Tolkien

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For some Tolkien collectors, desiderata include anything with Tolkien’s name on it or in it in any capacity whatsoever. For example, Tolkien...
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Saturday, January 11, 2025

A short review of The Mythmakers

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I just finished TheMythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien , a — what would you call it? — graphic joint-biog...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

Can Generative AI help us analyze The Lord of the Rings?

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Generative AI is everywhere these days. Some of its output can seem pretty impressive too, at least at a glance. So it’s natural to wonder w...
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Friday, September 20, 2024

Tolkien, Goethe, and the long long ago

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In a recent Facebook conversation, someone asked about The Making of Middle-earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings by Chris...
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Thursday, August 29, 2024

Tom Riddle and Roman Castevet

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I’ve written before about possible sources — or close similarities, at least — between motifs in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World and earlier ...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Tolkien’s uncle Wilfred

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Every so often, I go poking around in old archives — often out of little more than boredom — for anything to do with Tolkien that might have...
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