Post Tagged 'J.R.R. Tolkien'

August 05, 2025

J.R.R. Tolkien: Writing as Discovery

I am a self-proclaimed Inklings appreciator. From C.S. Lewis’s critical essays to Charles Williams’s doctrinal horror novels to Owen Barfield’s strange and marvelous metaphysic of symbols, this little group of writers has my heart. Continue Reading...

December 26, 2024

Temptation and Corruption in The Rings of Power

At nearly $60 million per episode, the first season of Amazon’s The Rings of Power was a historic investment in bringing a famed literary universe to the small screen. Reviewers and audiences were initially ambivalent about the series. Continue Reading...

September 20, 2023

The Wheel of Time: A Postmodern LOTR?

The Wheel of Time is a series of 14 novels by Robert Jordan, which debuted in 1990. You may never have heard of them, but they’ve sold 100 million copies and add up to more than 4 million words. Continue Reading...

June 10, 2015

Radio Free Acton: Partying with Hobbits and Jonathan Witt

On this edition of Radio Free Acton, your humble host bravely battles a late-spring cold to bring you an interview with Jonathan Witt, Managing Editor at TheStream.org, and author of The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom that Tolkien Got and The West Forgot. Continue Reading...

January 13, 2015

Review: In Praise of the Bourgeois, Liberty-Loving Race of Hobbits

In light of the discussion about distributism in the recent comments, I’m posting John Zmirak’s excellent Religion & Liberty review of The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom that Tolkien Got and the West Forgot by Jonathan Witt and Jay Richards (Ignatius Press, 2014) here on the PowerBlog. Continue Reading...

May 12, 2014

Tolkien, Hobbits, Hippies and War

Jay Richards and I have an Ignatius Press book on Tolkien’s commitment to freedom coming out soon, so we’ve been following developments in the Hobbit film trilogy more closely than we might otherwise. Continue Reading...