jrr tolkien – Meditations

January 12, 2022

Review: Letters from Father Christmas, J.R.R. Tolkien

Rating: 5 out of 5 I knew about this title for a long while, and yet I never thought to pick it up. What…

January 7, 2022

Rating: 4 out of 5 This is a reworking of a British and Breton myth to a consistent poetic story with the original Breton…

December 31, 2021

Rating: 5 out of 5 The story of Turin Turambar is definitely one of the finest that Mr Tolkien wrote; ‘The Story of Kullervo’…

August 7, 2019

Rating the Book: 5 out of 5 Rating of What the Book Thinks It Is: 2 out of 5 Thinking about the question of…

February 5, 2019

Rating: 5 out of 5 It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anything that I liked a work by JRR Tolkien, and yet I…

December 26, 2017

Finally a place with a story or two to tell though mostly because of the tragedies that have struck Bungay in times past. Yet,…

June 11, 2013

After my recent reread of the Lord of the Rings, I also decided to watch Peter Jackson’s movies again. I didn’t get very far…

June 2, 2013

‘And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a…

May 30, 2013

Summoning is a band that I would generally put into a darker category, and yet I really like them. I think it is the…

May 25, 2013

There is a very nice poem (this sentence would probably be more accurate if I had said “There is another very nice poem…”) in…