Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, Ben analyzes how specific historical events have led to an interest in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic fiction.
The Lady Galadriel who rules the forest of Lórien, is renowned for her beauty (among other traits, including her wisdom and mercy). Gimli the dwarf deems her fairer than “all the jewels that lie beneath…
Tolkien’s unfinished Arthurian epic is a moving narrative meditation on glory, loyalty, and fate—but not a story of hope. I’ve been a devotee of Arthurian legend since I was eight, when a visiting British relative…
J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were both scholars of language and literature, Oxford professors, Christians, and friends. They might both also be considered the original “sci-fi Christians,” since both men used their considerable literary talent…
I hesitate to say I enjoyed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey even more than I enjoyed John Carter, only because I know that won’t sound like high praise to most moviegoers. But if you read…
If you’re looking forward to director Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit (I know I am), you likely already know that Evangeline Lilly, late of Lost, has been cast as an elf named Tauriel, a…
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