by Brenda W. Clough I’m a real fan of snappy, tight work. So I was annoyed by The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. This thing is at least an hour too long. All the pernicious influences of modern … Continue reading
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by Brenda W. Clough The third and final Hobbit movie is out today! Holiday pressures force me to postpone seeing the movie for a while — when I do I will post a review. But to celebrate, I give you … Continue reading
By Brenda Clough When the first Lord of the Rings movie came out in 2001, it generated a huge number of parodies, fan posts, and general fluff. I wrote this at that time. I ran across it recently, and cannot … Continue reading
A review of the film “The Hobbit: Part One. Yes, part one — there’s Gold in Them Thar Hills, pilgrim!”
Continue readingby Sherwood Smith The other day, Jim C. Hines cracked up a portion of the Internet with his attempt to assume some of the female poses on cover art. A few of those poses seem only possible if said female’s … Continue reading
by Sherwood Smith I recently reread The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, by Diana Pavlac Glyer, leading me to a question. Without any academic snarkiness, Glyer thoroughly dismantles Humphrey Carpenter’s assurance in his … Continue reading