A War of the Rohirrim Onomasticon
“Out of these languages are made nearly all the names that appear in my legends. This gives a certain character (a cohesion, a consistency of linguistic style, and an illusion of historicity) to the nomenclature, or so I believe, that is markedly lacking in other...
Warner Bros. Releases “The Rider”, a Song by Paris Paloma
By now, thousands of us who have been awaiting the upcoming Warner Brothers film, The War of the Rohirrim, have heard the song “The Rider” in its entirety. “The Rider” is a song sung by English singer-songwriter Paris Paloma for the film’s end credits. Its...
Some Say There Is No Canon: Another Look at Canon and the Tolkien Estate
"Some say that he is a bear descended from the great and ancient bears of the mountains that lived there before the giants came. Others say that he is a man descended from the first men who lived before Smaug or the other dragons came...
The Roads Less Traveled in Arda
Within Tolkien’s Legendarium, we are introduced to a plethora of different locations—most of which we know a great deal about. But there are some places within the world of Arda that Tolkien leaves rather obscure, in the hope that we fill in the blanks with...
