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Personal Canon Formation
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Heroic Language in *The Lord of the Rings*
Or, Tolkienian Style, part 2
The Mona Lisa's Sister Doesn't Smile
Or, how an under-appreciated pop masterpiece transports your author back four decades
Tolkien's Homosocial Fellowship
In which we tread into the perilous waters of biographical criticism
Orc-Talk: Tolkien and Ordinary Evil
Or, insidious constructions of "freedom"
Confessions
In which a reader, writer, and scholar meditates upon a few of his many flaws and mistakes
Gollum and the Fragmented Self
Or, we are all Sméagol
Tolkien and the Myth of Decline
Or, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall"
The Palantír and the Panopticon
Or, Tolkien and the technologies of power
Tolkien and Race
Yes, we have to talk about orcs
Tolkien's Ents: Ecology Meets Philology
Hrmm-hmm!