Tolkien and Fantasy

In the Spring 2026 issue of Mythlore , I reviewed the book Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak...

I've just posted a new piece at Tolkien Oddments substack. Here is the beginning.  You can read the entire piece freely at this link . M...

Okay, I'm experimenting. My post on "Books Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien During His Lifetime" is freely available at my (new) To...

A. Merritt (1877-1943) For anyone interested in the life and works of A. Merritt, the book A. Merritt: Reflections in the Moon Pool (1985),...

My dragon award from the Tolkien Society, announced here (with other winners) at the end of April,  arrived a few weeks ago. It looks splen...

In July 1964, L. Sprague de Camp sent J.R.R. Tolkien a copy of his anthology, Swords & Sorcery , which had been published in December 19...

So far as I know, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian author of such magisterial fantasy stories as "The Aleph" and "T...