tolkien
50-Year Reread of The Lord of the Rings – 4: Pippin and Merry – Prospective Cultures
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/50-year-reread-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-4-pippin-and-merry/
A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. Pippin and Merry come as a double act (not exactly ‘dumb and dumber’, but not a million miles from that either) in the Jackson film version of LOTR, providing both light relief and…
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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
https://acoup.blog/2026/01/03/new-acquisitions-tolkien-and-eowyn-between-two-wars-ppp-moot-keynote/
Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I've made some minor edits to conform a bit more to the form of a blog post, but this remains very…
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