Tolkien and Fantasy

UK ed, with great Alan Lee cover It's hard to believe that Robert Holdstock passed away ten years ago today, on November 29th, 2009...

My messy year of 2019 actually began in the summer of 2018, after a close lightning strike fried the electronics in my house, including my c...

Since the publication of Verlyn Flieger's edition of The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun in 2016, there has been much renewed attention to Tol...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s lecture on inventing languages, “A Secret Vice,” was first published in 1983.   A critical edition, including newly publis...

I cover here some ephemera related to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. First, the boxed sets.  I know of three of them. The first is T...

The iconic list (or at least the starting point) for a definitive bibliography of all of the titles in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy seri...