I’m a big Lord of the Rings guy,” JD Vance once told a podcaster. The running mate of former and perhaps future president Donald Trump went on to explain that “a lot of my conservative worldview was ...
Tolkien then complained: "Meanwhile the 'Daily Worker' is cried in the streets unmolested." The "Daily Worker" was the ...
COMMENTARY: A university should be a place where students can pursue ultimate truths about God and the human person, not ...
There are few better ways of spending our money than in the support of contemporary Catholic culture.
THE MYTHMAKERS: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, by John Hendrix I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two ...
The second season of “Rings of Power” is far from perfect. But the finale pays off its themes in surprisingly satisfying ways ...
Episode 82: The Catholic faith of JRR Tolkien, with Holly Ordway Holly Ordway joins Dr Gavin Ashenden for the 82nd episode of Merely Catholic to discuss the Catholicism of JRR Tolkien, ...
Tolkien himself couldn’t figure out the morality of orcs. Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel is trying anyway.
Elvish is the heart of Tolkien’s mythology, and it’s all over the latest adaptation of his work, Prime Video’s The Rings of Power. Quenya, which Tolkien describes as a sort of “Elf Latin ...