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Tolkienian Fate and Free Will: Mount Doom

*The Lord of the Rings* Reading Challenge bonus, week 8

May 3 •

Corruption and Redemption

The nature of evil in Middle-earth

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“The Eagles are Coming!”: Despair and Hope in *The Return of the King*

*The Lord of the Rings* Reading Challenge, week eight

May 1 •

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Could "The Council of Elrond" Have Been an Email?

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Why Shakespeare?

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Tolkien and Race: Yes, We Have to Talk about Orcs

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It’s Never Too Late (or Too Early) to Find Your Voice

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Vaughan Williams Gets Angry, and We Get New Prince Tracks

RVW Listening Challenge and some lagniappe

Apr 28 •

Heroic Language in *The Lord of the Rings*, or Tolkienian Style, part 2

*The Lord of the Rings* Reading Challenge bonus, week 7

Apr 26 •

Tolkien's Homosocial Fellowship

*The Lord of the Rings* Reading Challenge, week seven

Apr 24 •

A London Symphony

Vaughan Williams Listening Challenge, and a streaming recommendation

Apr 21 •

Orc-Talk: Tolkien and Ordinary Evil

*The Lord of the Rings* Reading Challenge bonus, week six

Apr 19 •

Gollum and the Fragmented Self

*The Lord of the Rings* Reading Challenge, week six

Apr 17 •

Vaughan Williams and Angst

The RVW Listening Challenge and the Stack of the Week

Apr 14 •

Tolkien and the Myth of Decline

*The Lord of the Rings* Reading Challenge bonus, week five

Apr 12 •

*LOTR* Reading Challenge Check-in

I just wanted to open up a thread, since we have reached the halfway point in our Reading Challenge. Feel free to discuss anything. Those of you…

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