Category: Puttin’ the Blog in Balrog
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If you’ve never read Tolkien, you may be wondering where the ideal place is to start. Ironically, it’s not at the beginning. Tolkien began working on the stories that would form the history and mythology of his Middle-earth while still a young man; he even worked on it sporadically as a soldier in the First…
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In a school newspaper article back when I started grade ten, a snippet of advice for would-be readers of fantasy ran thus: “Read Tolkien. Live Tolkien. Love Tolkien. Memorize Tolkien. Tolkien, we would like to note, has absolutely nothing to do with inhaling drugs.” Fortunately, at 14, I was already up to speed on the…