Category: Story

  • The Dual Themes of the 2nd Age

    The Dual Themes of the 2nd Age

    Years ago I was told that the a couple of the main themes of the 2nd age in the Silmarillion are about mortality of men and the immortality of elves.  This got me real curious, and I always wanted to read the Silmarillion, may as well read all of the 2nd Age (which is actually…

  • The fall of Denethor

    The fall of Denethor

    Back in 2020, I got into the Lord of the Rings living card game, and in one of the packs I got a card of Denethor, he looked vastly different from the Denethor card in the starter set; The starter Denethor card looked weak but weaselly cunning (which is a common portrayal of him), but…

  • On Myth

    On Myth

    “It begins to look as if there were an art, or gift, which criticism has largely ignored.  It may even be one of the greatest arts; for it produces works which give us (at the first meeting) as much delight and (on prolonged acquaintance) as much wisdom and strength as the works of the greatest…