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Phosphorescent Old Wine - LOTR 63
It'll Kill You or Cure You...
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Matthew C. Smallwood

February 2024

Floating Reminiscences - There is a Change in the Wind - LOTR 62
Change in the Wind, Eagles in the Sky, And a Quest on Foot.
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December 2023

Not the End of the World, but the End of "Us"? - LOTR 61
Getting Rid of "We", and Becoming "I"
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November 2023

The Swan Song of Sauron - LOTR 60
Even Evil is Looking a Little Rusty...
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Papers, Comrade! - LOTR 59
The Devil Goes First. In a fallen world, Satan has the initiative. Or so it would seem, at first. Satan rules over the world of Coin and the kingdom of…
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September 2023

Tolkien Chapter Two - Archetypes Part One
It wasn't just Jung...
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Not the Beginning of the End
But the End of the Beginning - LOTR 57
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August 2023

June 2023

Tolkien's Grand Project/Chapter I - Ages, Aeons, Epochs
Not an Epoch, or even a Modern "Age", But not quite an Aeon One of the first things that strikes a careful modern reader in the Tolkien world …
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May 2023

Seneschal of Sub Creation - Introduction
Link [This is my Introduction to an in-process book of essays on Tolkien.] INTRODUCTION There has been a lot of ink spilled or scribbled & lovingly…
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All Shall be Well, & All Manner of Things Are Already Well
On Noticing the Sublime, in Front of Our Faces
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Going into the Mountains in Search of a Tree
"Gate & Gaurdian of the Gate"
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