Tolkien and Fantasy

My friend and fellow Tolkienist Mike Foster passed away a few days ago, after a long illness. I can't recall how far back out associatio...

The same source of the E.R. Eddison letter discussed in my last blog post contains some letters from Clark Ashton Smith that I found quite i...

It’s always nice to learn an author’s answer to a vexing question about their works. A new (to me) small cache of letters from the early 193...

In the 16 January 1938 issue of the London newspaper The Observer , there was a query, signed "Habit", from Queensway, asking whet...

It is fairly well-known that Tolkien's Hobbits were inspired by The Marvellous Land of Snergs , a 1927 children's book by E.A. Wyke-...

 J.S.Ryan (top left) and J.R.R. Tolkien (bottom right)  A quick note to remark on the passing of Tolkien's former student, J.S. Ryan, wh...

My short note "Tolkien's Friend Selby" on Tolkien's correspondence with G.E. Selby (1909-1987) was just published by The T...