Archive - The Squire Sallies Forth into Middle Earth

LOTR 79 - Forgotten Lost Causes

Or, Will There Be Summer Blackberries in both Scotland & the Shire?

Jul 9 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

Conflicting Perspectives Aren't Always Bad, they Triangulate the Target - LOTR 77

Link Note: I seem to be missing post 76.

Jul 4 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

March 2025

When the Roll Is Called up Yonder, I'll be Here - LOTR 75

Nothing Comes From Nothing (Nihil omnino in nihilum redigetur)...But It Still Helps to Have a Gallows Sense of Humor

Mar 15 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

The Necromancy of the Word, & the Prophecy of the Image - LOTR 74

Reconstruction, Regeneration, or Renovation? What shall we name it, how shall we envision it?

Mar 15 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

September 2024

Tolkien Chapter 5 - An Apologia that goes beyond Defense through Art (corrected format)

An Apologist, Who Never Apologized...Not With Blurb or Blurt or Bloviation, But only with Song

Sep 11, 2024 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

Tolkien Chapter 5 - An Apologia that goes beyond Defense through Art

An Apologist, Who Never Apologized...Not With Blurb or Blurt or Bloviation, But only with Song

Sep 11, 2024 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

Tolkien Chapter 3 - Agni, The Secret Fire

God and the Occult...

Sep 7, 2024 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

Tolkien Chapter 4 - Ainulindalë, Aman, & the Sub-Creation of Arda

The Echoes of Atlantis in a "Feigned History and Imagined Past"

Sep 7, 2024 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

Out of a Nursing Home, & The Long, Scenic Route Home - LOTR 73

Or, Buckling for Your Sacred Dust Versus Scarabs, Zombies, and DEI

Sep 7, 2024 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

August 2024

Dang it, We are in a Tight Spot - Let's Reverse Uno LOTR 72

The "World" Turned Upside Down...

Aug 18, 2024 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

In Which Dark Gallows Humor Alternates with the Wry Wit of Victory - LOTR 71

Or, Removing the Last Stain of Honor, and Blood, Off the Shire's Heart

Aug 3, 2024 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

July 2024

The System & the Human Person - Law & Disorder - LOTR 70

Or, Why does Saruman "Rise Again" in the Shire?

Jul 18, 2024 •

Matthew C. Smallwood

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