Tolkien
WBH Weekly Digest 2023-06-30: The Fantasy Canon
I'm back from a work trip, a family wedding, and a family vacation. On with the posting!
A thread about the long history of Conan as a character, and the various reasons for his complicated publishing history.
Spider-Man Has Lost His Place - Front Porch RepublicSpider-Man now devalues human-scale kindness
Eucatastrophe
"But the 'consolation' of fairy-tales has another aspect than the imaginative satisfaction of ancient desires. Far more important is the Consolation of the Happy Ending. Almost I would venture to assert that all complete fairy-stories must have it. At least I would say that Tragedy is the true form of
Butter scraped across too much bread
Viggo Mortenson is older now than Ian McKellen was in this picture.
Small Everyday Deeds
“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” - JRR Tolkien
Samwise
Only Baggins round these parts is body-baggins, friend…
With apologies to Travis Knight for the title.