J R R Tolkien Archives — The New Atlantis

Text Patterns | January 24, 2017

January 24, 2017

The Riddles of the Hobbit is a riddling book about a riddling writer, a philological exercise concerning the works of a...

Text Patterns | December 9, 2016

December 9, 2016

I wrote recently that I see world-building in SF and fantasy as coming in two chief varieties, the speculative and the...

Text Patterns | May 4, 2015

May 4, 2015

One of the stories often told by fans of the Inklings — C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and their friends — is...

Text Patterns | December 23, 2013

December 23, 2013

My son and I went to see The Dissolution of Smog The Desecration of Snog The Desolation of Smaug today. I am...

Text Patterns | October 10, 2013

October 10, 2013

James Joyce’s Ulysses is fascinating in many ways, not least because it has proven such a magnet for controversy of...

Text Patterns | May 3, 2010

May 3, 2010

I’ve just discovered a cool thing at Tor.com, the website of the SF/fantasy publisher: blogs devoted to...

Text Patterns | April 22, 2010

April 22, 2010

It’s generally understood that books are read differently in different generations: cultural changes bring themes and...

Text Patterns | March 15, 2010

March 15, 2010

In a forthcoming issue of The New Atlantis, James Bowman writes: Tolkien and the other old-time fantasists may have...