Thursday, March 12, 2026

Generative AI, Hallucinations, and Tolkien Revisited

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Just about a year ago, I wrote about the problem of hallucinations when discussing Tolkien with generative AI chatbots. That followed a post...
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Sunday, January 11, 2026

My Year in Books: 2025

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As anyone visiting this blog must know, I read quite a bit. I’ve been recording most of my reading (with one or two lapses) since 2004, over...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

“The Ulsterior Motive” and other unpublished writings of Tolkien

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With the upcoming publication of “The Bovadium Fragments” — following the recent Collected Poems , Nature of Middle-earth , Battle of Maldon...
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Monday, May 26, 2025

First mention of The Bovadium Fragments

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As many of you will know already, another posthumous Tolkien publication is on the horizon, this time also posthumously edited by his son, C...
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

A new profile of Karen Wynn Fonstad

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Wisconsin Public Radio just published a great profile on Karen Wynn Fonstad, the celebrated part-time cartographer known for her incredibly...
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Monday, April 7, 2025

An ephemeral coincidence

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It should be obvious from my last several posts — if it hadn’t been already over many years of posts! — that I love digging into old archiv...
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Sunday, April 6, 2025

A warm welcome in a not quite dead language

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In their Chronology , Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond tell us that on October 7, 1925, just a few months shy of 100 years ago: The Vice-Ch...
Friday, April 4, 2025

More details on Tolkien’s election to the General Board of the Faculties, Oxford

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Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond tell us in the expanded edition of their Chronology that on June 21, 1929 Tolkien was “elected to represe...
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Thursday, April 3, 2025

A newly discovered primary account of Arthur Tolkien’s death

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Bloemfontein was a rough place to be on the late 19th century. In addition to the Boer Wars, the climate was a difficult adjustment for Euro...
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